Word: foyer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opera house second to none for luxury, they also had orders to surmount the edifice with a 21-story office building. In the auditorium are rose-velvet boxes, rose-brocade chairs, a gold and ivory proscenium arch, lush carpeting, amber lights, spacious cloak rooms, a rose-and-gold foyer with towering columns of Roman travertine. Around and over the auditorium are 739,000 square feet of office space, the entire income from which will be put to artistic account...
...concern to the U. S. Government, which gives him $15,000 per annum and leaves him to find his own quarters. When Vice President Charles Curtis established himself, his official-hostess sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, and Mr. Gann, at the fashionable Mayflower Hotel, Washington busybodies eyed the apartment (foyer, double-sized drawing room, dining room for 26 guests, smoking room, library, four bedrooms, two servants' rooms, kitchen, furnished at a cost of $75,000), ascertained its normal rental ($22,500 per year), and hastily concluded that Mr. Curtis was a free guest at the hotel for advertising purposes...
From the diningroom walls, President and Mrs. Coolidge, in oils, gaze coolly down upon the throng. (Taft and Wilson are in the foyer; Roosevelt in the hall. All the Presidents except Harding hang somewhere in the White House...
...west side of the foyer, in a grove of potted palms, the red-jacketed Marine Band blares martially. Young military aides ply softly up and down, keeping the line of guests moving decorously but swiftly into the State Dining Room, where the faint may refresh themselves with clear ice water from a mahogany sideboard...
...Irwin Hood Hoover, came to the White House as plain "Ike" Hoover, a tall, long-nosed electrician to superintend a wiring job. He stayed on and on until he became major domo, chief usher and master of White House protocol. He has a little office off the main foyer, to the right as you enter. Crisply grey of hair, vigorous of demeanor, it is he who inspects all callers, who engineers all receptions, arranges the First Lady's teas, sends the White House motor hither...