Word: anterooms
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...Anteroom Note. Everyone involved in the scandal suddenly became so tight-mouthed and empty-headed that neither networks nor sponsor nor Dotto's owner (Frank Cooper Associates) seemed to know enough between them to rate a spot on the show. But despite the determined silences, the story leaked...
...writhed her swivel-hipped way across the crowded foyer of a posh London hotel, suddenly found her strapless, skinlike gown at half mast when its key stitches gave way. Reported a lady eyewitness: "Under it was-just Anita." With a pretty display of shocked modesty, Anita repaired to an anteroom for repairs, cooed later: "I like tight dresses, but after this, well...
Returning from one of these excursions recently, Adams came racing through the White House lobby just in time to keep an appointment with a visitor who was already waiting in the anteroom. Spotting the caller, Adams motioned toward his office with the crook of a finger and said: "In." Inside, Adams pointed and said: "Chair." The visitor sat down near the desk. Hat and coat still on, Adams opened several envelopes marked "Confidential." He pressed a buzzer and summoned an assistant staff secretary. Adams handed the aide a paper and ordered: "Send this to Gettysburg . . . Seems self-explanatory...
...much a fixture in the royal family; the press of Britain, vainly trying to marry the Princess off to a whole parade of eligible earls and marquesses, was too busy to notice. Too busy, that is, until the coronation, when a sharp-eyed reporter in an Abbey anteroom caught Margaret affectionately brushing off the lapels of Airman Townsend's jacket. The simple gesture was enough to set off a fever of speculation in the press, and the speculation was enough to send the faithful aide winging into exile, as air attache in Britain's embassy in Brussels. Alerted...
Furthermore, Johnson had hoped to have Lord Chesterfield as his patron, but found himself merely cooling his heels in the great man's anteroom. "Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain . . . without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor." A patron, Johnson bitterly declared in the Dictionary, is "one who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence...