Word: corridorful
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When Spokesman Smith marched in before the seven R. F. C. directors, out in the corridor gathered dozens of chattering clerks, stenographers, typists and underlings, to glimpse the "Happy Warrior." In the door they found a peek-hole through which they watched him pound the board table, wave his cigar, shake his greying head. Cried Al Smith angrily: "The R.F.C. can act like a suspicious banker with two glass eyes or it can take up its social responsibilities and put men to work...
...Spokesman Smith returned to the job of extracting cash for New York tunnels, bridges and causeways, the R. F. C. corridor crackled with excited feminine comment: "Simply grand! What a man! A honey! A peach! And wasn't that little green bow tie cute...
France, alarmed by the sudden pole vault to power of Adolf Hitler, began to stickle for Japanese observance of the "sanctity of treaties," preparatory to stickling later for German respect of the treaty-created Polish Corridor, etc. Britain was said to have taken her new line because: 1) President-elect Roosevelt was reported by Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay to be resolved to continue the so-called "Stimson Doctrine" of nonrecognition of Manchukuo; and 2) Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister to China, was said to have cabled warnings that if the League fails to deal with Japan, China may declare...
...drawers are now so packed with cards, that one can consult them only with considerable difficulty and the cards themselves suffer from the rough treatment they necessarily receive. A large case of card trays will have to be added in the immediate future, probably to be placed in the corridor outside the catalogue room...
...Saloman-Lozano Treaty of 1922, Peru ceded to Colombia a "Corridor to the Amazon" at the tip of which is Leticia...