Word: anterooms
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Through the dark corridors to his office the Admiral strode briskly. He approached the anteroom where visitors waited for interviews. The door opened; a young man stepped into the hall. He aimed a revolver at the Admiral's face and pressed the trigger. The Admiral staggered, lunged forward, blood spurting from his mouth. A second shot. He fell, and lay still...
...teeth of Nome and hundreds of miles around, deal on the spot with cases which any ordinary dentist at home would refer to a specialist. When dentistry was over for the day (often around midnight), overflow guests of the crowded hotel often slept on beds made up in the anteroom. Dr. Kennedy's prices were fairly high-$20 for an inlay-but not high as Alaska prices went: coal was $40 a ton, Coca-Cola 25? a bottle (when it could be had), watermelons $6 each...
...Smith, in white suit and Panama hat, strutted into the White House one day last week for a 15-minute chat with Franklin Roosevelt on New York politics. The talk was so good that Mr. Smith overstayed his time by 30 minutes. In an anteroom Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and OWI's Elmer Davis cooled their heels until the political talk was over...
...early morning long ago, before Hitler was master of Germany, the late Hangman Reinhard Heydrich rushed to see his Führer on a matter of desperate urgency. He tramped through an anteroom to the Führer's bedroom and. with his usual disregard of anything that stood in his way, drove his heavy boot into the body of a man who was lying in front of Adolf Hitler's door to protect him from assassination...
...early morning long ago, before Hitler was master of Germany, the late Hangman Reinhard Heydrich rushed to see his Führer on a matter of desperate urgency. He tramped through an anteroom to the Führer's bedroom and. with his usual disregard of anything that stood in his way, drove his heavy boot into the body of a man who was lying in front of Adolf Hitler's door to protect him from assassination...