Word: anterooms
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...impracticable for hospitals to keep a row of wet nurses on call in an anteroom. Nevertheless mother's milk is often needed in a hurry for premature babies. Last week at the Mother's Milk Bureau of Manhattan's Children's Welfare Federation a group of medical men were shown a method of preserving human milk, an emulsion much less stable than cow's milk, for periods up to a year...
...anteroom of the Vatican one morning this week waited two Roman Catholic prelates, Monsignor Eugéne Tisserant and Monsignor Giovanni Mercati, while in the nearby Consistorial Chamber gathered Pope Pius XI, his court and resident members of the College of Cardinals. Of this secret consistory, convoked a month ago, the Pope asked ratification of his choice of the two monsignori as new Princes of the Church. When assent was silently and swiftly given, Vatican functionaries entered the anteroom, informed the cardinals-elect that the Holy Father would bestow red hats upon them at a public consistory later...
...them an opportunity to talk after eight silent days during which they had to ask their questions in writing; 2) they were allowed to smoke on the Senate floor, a privilege they enjoy at no other time. For two days Judge Ritter and his lawyers fretted nervously in an anteroom...
...prehistory." The building was circular and its walls, of sun-dried brick, were more than a yard thick. Twelve rooms were laid out around the circle, and across it were three rectangular rooms in series. The diggers believed that the largest was a cult-room and that a small anteroom was a sanctum. Mysterious bell-shaped objects made of polished marble may have served either as weights or as cult paraphernalia...
When strangers call at the dingy house in London's Grosvenor Street where London Films has offices, they are likely to be surprised when a fatigued-looking young man, who has ushered them from an anteroom into a comfortable but shabby little office, then seats himself behind its desk and says: "I am Mr. Korda." That, at 42, Kingpin Korda looks and acts like anything but a Hollywood cinemagnate is no accident. A bright young Budapest journalist who got interested in the cinema in 1916, he reached Hollywood by way of Vienna, Rome and Berlin in 1925. His Private...