Word: cloakrooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less important guests go to the east entrance, on East Executive Ave., and reach the White House through a long corridor-cloakroom...
...does not leave by the door opposite where he came in. If he did, he would find himself in the President's telephone ("Main 6") and cloakroom or, beyond that, in the Cabinet Room with its long low reddish table, set about with black leather chairs.* Instead, he marches right rear to a door letting him into another corridor. Now he must turn to the left. To the right is the way the President goes when returning to the White House (via the basement) or when going out to his posinground to be photographed...
...Lampoon building is admirably adapted for an eating hall, for it contains an excellently appointed large room, with culinary equipment in Arthur's restaurant in the basement. The president's office, it is understood, will be used as a cloakroom for the inhabitants of the "Gold Coast House". According to present plans, the University will incorporate Claverly, Randolph, and possibly Russell, into one House. What disposition will be made of Benjamin Hyte's tailoring shop has not yet been announced. Bob Lampoon, for so many years the power-behind-the-throne and genuis of all Lampoon wit will be accepted...
Work Done. Reconvening after the holidays, the House last week: ¶Abolished the cloakroom lunch counter, which Commander George W. Calver, U. S. Navy, health-guardian for Representatives, called "the most unsanitary eating place in the District of Columbia." ¶Debated credits and refunds on income taxes (see below...
...group next turned to nitroglycerine, experimented for a month. Surreptitiously Carlos Castro Balda, ex-government clerk and Manuel Trejo, Laborite, entered the cloakroom of the Chamber of Deputies, placed there one of their concoctions. Later it exploded, but too late...