Word: call-in
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...sequestered stillness of his deep-carpeted rooms, Manuel Quezon moves quietly. Except for his eyes, he seems impassive. Long racked by tuberculosis, he spends most of his days on a reclining chair, dressed sometimes in silk pajamas, sometimes-when visitors call-in double-breasted suits. Rarely is he seen in the hotel's lobby. Illness has changed Manuel Quezon, the man of explosive talk and volatile gestures. His days are spent in routine matters of state. Mostly he sits and waits for the day on which he can return to the Philippines...