Word: cloakrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cloakroom Tyrant. At that point, the resemblance to other schools stopped. The Capitol Page School, an offshoot of the District of Columbia school system, is attended by the House's 49 page boys, the Senate's 21, the Supreme Court's four, and a few more Capitol-employed boys. School starts at 6:30 a.m. every weekday, lets out at 9:39 a.m.; work begins at 9:49 a.m., ends usually between 5 and 6 p.m. Homework is light. The student-pages are paid $246.95 a month; tuition is free...
...Pawtuxet. Permanent-waved and smartly turned out, Mrs. Clauson was trembling when she took her place with the other hostesses to greet guests. Captain Smith arrived, and everybody watched to see what he would do. He breezed right by Mrs. Clauson without a word. Soon, she retired to the cloakroom, and talked with the hatcheck girls. After a while, she helped them check hats & coats...
Laboratory. In Seattle, S. E. Kram told police that his overcoat had been stolen from the cloakroom while he was attending class at Jewell's Detective School...
Alben Barkley's old job as Senate majority leader would probably fall to Illinois' tall, personable Scott Lucas, Senate whip and Barkley's understudy. Barkley, himself, was expected to step down frequently from the presiding officer's dais to exert his considerable talent for cloakroom leadership. Texas' Tom Connally, 71, who has lost some of his shaggy hair because of shingles, will take back the big job of chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he has labored in comparative obscurity for the last two years under the shadow of Michigan's Arthur...
Debate was cut short as a prominent Peronista hurried to a cloakroom telephone, returned to whisper in the presiding officer's ear. The roll call began, and the deputies voted-by turning the electrical indicators on their desks to "Aye" or "No." The lights on the board above the dais flashed the result: 104 to 42 in favor of expulsion. "Let's see who runs to telephone la Señora!" hooted Radical Deputy Emir Mercader...