Word: cloakrooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some observers noted that, as the hour grew late on the night of the vote, first-term members were yanked into the cloakroom--and emerged white as sheets. Margolies-Mezvinsky was the last lamb to be sacrificed; that was merely bad luck. If there had been one more Republican representative to tip the scales, the final Democrat might have been someone else...
About a quarter of Clinton's address was improvised, including the ad-libbed aside to snickering Republicans who doubted his estimated deficit numbers. The meal with the anchors paid off, as to a man, they praised the performance in the postgame analysis. Afterward, in the cloakroom, the President allowed himself a quiet, "Pretty good, wasn...
Maybe plumbing, not biology, is destiny. More than 70 years after women won the vote, the U.S. Senate chamber still has no women's bathroom. Even the Democratic cloakroom in the House has no ladies' room, leaving female Representatives with a hike to the Congressional Women's Reading Room, where there are all of three toilets. Future archaeologists, studying the pipes and bathroom fixtures of Capitol Hill, may conclude that late-20th century America was a fortress of patriarchy on a par with Saudi Arabia...
Inside the Cloakroom...
...cleanup crew that followed in Souter's wake to glean cloakroom prattle heard him compared to Calvin Coolidge and called a "mousy little guy." Bush can live with that. Souter is a Harvard-Phi Beta Kappa-Rhodes scholar mouse...