Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corner where the caskets of Senator Walsh and Senator Fletcher stood not long ago. The next morning 15 Senators led by Assistant Leader Barkley appeared at Hysong's. By orders of Mrs. Robinson nobody was to see the body, so they settled themselves in the room across the corridor, where food and drink were brought them and they remained until the establishment closed at 10 p. m., visiting with one another and with some 500 notables (including Marvin Mclntyre representing the President), who called and signed the book...
...Washington when the politicians started and it continued, save for a few solemn moments in Little Rock, until the train pulled again into Washington's Union Station three days later. Every compartment where two or three politicians were gathered together was a caucus room. In every corridor statesmen buttonholed one another, making hay while the wheels clicked. Messrs. Keenan, Farley and West, the New Deal's top-flight liaison men, lobbied from dawn to dusk...
Jewish sources published hastily drawn maps which differed considerably. All agreed, however, that the Jewish State will be in the north of Palestine, mainly along the Mediterranean; that the Arab State will be in the south, mainly inland; that His Majesty's Government will retain for themselves a corridor running inland from the port of Jaffa to such Biblical holy places as Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Some Jewish insiders opined that this British corridor will bend north at Jerusalem and extend all the way to Nazareth, others were sure it would stop at Jerusalem. Most agreed that Judea will...
...good friends on the Right as well. He mourns equally over them all: "In all Iviza's 6,000 years the watchers on her hills saw no stranger sights than I did, nothing more unreal, more unexpected. . . . Nineteen thirty-six, take your place in the corridor of bloody years! Be proud, if you can, of what you have evoked and produced and spilt...
...used to discharge gas through the bottom of the ship at the catwalk. Today it is done through ventilating shafts at the top of the ship. In earlier days the exhausts were located nearer to the central corridor than now, yet we never had any ignition then. Under those conditions we have valved gas hundreds of times without fire...