Word: anterooms
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...Work. Hedda is one of the few columnists in Hollywood who has a downtown (Hollywood) office and a number listed in the phone book. The anteroom might well be that of a dentist who had fallen into a cavity and never managed to climb out. With its bare radiators, scarred doors and desks, signed photographs and careless gadgets, the whole suite resembles an oldtime theatrical booking agency...
...Hummon and his flushed and breathless followers in a paneled anteroom and announced: "I respectfully but firmly decline to surrender the office. I consider you a pretender...
Hummon turned pale, in the best historical tradition. He clenched his teeth, said, "We shall see," and turned on his heel. The crowd charged the door to the governor's office. Anteroom furniture was splintered and an Arnall aide had his jaw broken...
...Glover Rueter, Jr. '47, Lampoon president, greeting his well-wishers in his tiled anteroom, boomed expansively, "Our Ibis is back to stay--we made sure of that. We had it filled with special lead to keep it steady--three sheets to the wind, as we sailors...
Next time you run into Gus Kuester [TIME, April 29] pacing the anteroom of his porcine maternity ward, would you suggest to him that perhaps one reason he is so cheerful about the future of this country is because I am helping to pay for his pigs? I myself am not so happy about it, as it wasn't my idea to let Washington spend one-fifth of my rapidly diminishing income on these subsidies- although since I must, I only hope the pork chops are going to starving Europe, since they certainly never show...