Word: gavelled
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Then the band would begin to play. The Secretaries would hastily compute totals. The Chairman's gavel would rap a few times, reverberating through the microphones. The band would break off abruptly or hurry through a few last bars...
...House worked desperately to clean up its calendar. Late hours and early hours were resorted to. Time was doled out in minutes. Speakers belched forth their arguments in haste in order to have their say before the descending gavel silenced them. Conferees worked desperately, reports were agreed with or disagreed with in hasty efforts at accomplishment. Business was rushing...
...clock was stopped and the members gathered together and sang Merrilly We Roll Along, The Old Oaken Bucket, Sweet Adeline, My Country 'Tis of Thee. Speaker Gillett announced that the session was at an end, and wished the members "pleasant vacation." "And reelection!" shouted the members as the gavel fell...
Cries of "fair play," "be brave," from the radicals. Cries of "sit down" from Lewis' followers. The gavel pounded on the President's desk...
...resolution denying Howat's reinstatement was passed by a show of hands, with a considerable majority. More howls and hisses. "Bang! Bang!" went Mr. Lewis' gavel: "The Convention is adjourned...