Word: corridorful
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...Outside the schoolroom which serves as the President's Rapid City executive office runs a corridor. In the corridor is a bench on which sit those awaiting a presidential audience. On the bench one morning last week sat a Wyoming dirt farmer, his wife, his daughter. From ten o'clock until noon they sat, patient, vigilant. On the stroke of twelve the President came out of the office, bowed to the trio, passed on. Called the farmer to a nearby Secret Service man: "Is that the President? 'Well, come on, Mandy; now we can say we seen...
...delegates were initiated without ceremony, at their hotels, into one of the most famed and entirely innocent of Swedish customs. Upon ringing for a bath, they were led down the corridor by a woman exactly resembling in age, attractiveness and dress the ordinary U. S. "scrub-woman." Unsuspecting, many U. S. delegates entered the bathroom, closed the door, disrobed and got into the tub. The Swedish bathwoman, having retired during this interval, suddenly re-entered without warning, soaped and scrubbed the delegate in question, then applied a towel as large as a sheet, patting vigorously until...
...time the Fianna Fail deputies milled about in committee rooms and moped in the corridor of the Dail. Policemen were numerous. The Fianna Fail's 44 members drifted gradually, nonviolently away...
...There is not much formality about the social life at Vassar, as all the students live in one building. There is always considerable fun and enjoyment in the Senior class, as a certain corridor is their exclusive property. They have a class parlor, also sacred to Seniors, which is used as a room for both business and social meetings and is finely furnished...
...Through the White. House lower corridor, without a card, walked a lady whom one or two attendants were impressed to see. She entered the East Room, where, on Nov. 25, 1913, she had been married. She was Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, onetime Jessie Wilson, War President's daughter, now wife of a professor at Harvard Law School. Said she (to a guard) : "I just wanted to see the place and the East Room again," She did not meet any member of the Coolidge family...