Word: cloakrooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women are viewed by the members of the Greatest Club in the World? She better than most people could feel last week the polite frigidity which permeated the Senate's stag atmosphere at news of her appointment. Her presence will restrain the free-&-easy language of the Democratic cloakroom. It may necessitate the construction of a private lavatory. Some Senators may feel shy about spitting their tobacco juice in a lady's presence. The Greatest Club will be changed...
...gaping. Several ushers rushed the young man out of Guildhall, still shouting "Youth! Youth!" He told reporters that he is one Herbert Gervers. Such is British tolerance that he was not arrested, was even permitted to re-enter Guildhall to get his coat, hat and stick from the cloakroom, finally swaggered off into the night, immaculate...
...explained Mr. Beckett, adding stoutly to protect his friend Brown: "Before he could reply I had already picked up the Mace. My first surprise was to find how light it was. I thought I could get away with it. If I had, I would have deposited it in the cloakroom and left the House...
Manhattan's Henry Fairfield Osborn gave his crushed fedora hat and fur-lined overcoat (it has fancy buttons) to the cloakroom attendant and strolled to the speakers' platform, where he presided as retiring president. (California Tech's Robert Andrews Millikan is the incoming president.) His speech tended to show that man and monkeys are descended from so remote an ancestor that they should not be considered related...