Word: anterooms
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...Legislature of Quebec was assembled and waiting to be prorogued by Sir Lomer Gouin, His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor. In an anteroom Sir Lomer was rapidly affixing his signature to several dozen last minute bills. Suddenly his heart skipped strangely. Clutching at his side he lay down on a couch...
...Lieutenant-Governor is sick, he may be dying!" cried Sir Lomer's secretary, rushing into the Legislative Hall. Three doctor M. P.'s and a priest sprang up, dashed after the secretary to the anteroom...
...Smith of Vinton, Iowa take precedence over massacres in the Balkans. The wife of the President receives a delegation of the Camp Fire Girls in the Blue room; the President waves a fond farewell to the friends from home while the Secretary of the Navy is detained in the anteroom as a suspicious character. Far away is the echo of a voice, "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth...
...lawyer, who liked to busy himself with education. The governor wanted more uni versity control vested in his Republican legislature. This was one thing the young President could not stand. Between them grew an inevitable personal dislike. One time Governor Green kept President Little waiting one hour in an anteroom of the State Capitol. President Little had requested an interview about a proposed tax survey. Finally Dr. Little returned to Ann Arbor sans interview. It was then freely rumored that Governor Green might remove certain Regents, replace them with anti-Little men, force the Little resignation as Governor Roland...
Once only, Jay Gould waited in the European anteroom of a Banker Rothschild. He had sent in his card. Presently, it was returned to him with a message. "Europe," observed Banker-Baron Rothschild, "is not for sale...