Word: corridorful
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...gullibles had a more ornate picture of him. He was then the shrewd, straight-eyed miracle man of Boston's Hanover Street. He promised his clients a 50% profit in 45 days. On especially busy days, six mounted policemen handled the crowds in the street, 14 kept the corridor crowds in line. The essence of his scheme was to buy postal reply coupons in countries with depreciated exchange, redeem them at face value...
Halfway down the Capitol corridor, the Supreme Court took up its reading of decisions. At the corridor's end, House members were still milling in their chamber, for Speaker Longworth was late. The women of the House, all in black or grey, most of them wearing orchids, held reception, surrounded by clamoring...
...perpetually veiled, the two wives moved about London invisibly. Even when walking down their hotel corridor or through the lobby they were boxed in by portable screens carried by attendants. When attending the theatre their box was fitted with a contraption of screens so arranged that they could watch the performance, could not be watched by audience or players...
...plush cords were stretched across a corridor of the Capitol at noon one day last week. Tourists lined up to watch a heavy door open at one side of the corridor and nine elderly gentlemen in black robes file out and across and into another room. A moment later they emerged in a dim-lit semicircular room, took their places in nine black high-backed chairs on a raised platform. A handsome young man in a cutaway coat cried: "Oyez, oyez, oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw...
...bronze railing is now being made and as soon as it is completed it will be put in place of the temporary wooden one. It will be designed to match the other hardware throughout Widener according to the makers and will improve the general appearance of the corridor...