Word: gavelling
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...Democrats, declared a quorum present, although the Democrats refused to answer to the roll call. One day, when the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, William McKinley, was supposed to move adjournment at a certain hour, but had not appeared on the floor, Mr. Reed pounded with his gavel and announced: "The gentleman from Ohio moves that the House do now adjourn"; and then, leaning over the rostrum, called in a stage whisper to the clerk: "Where in thunder is the gentleman from Ohio?" When no answer came, he put the motion and declared it carried. Those days...
This mountebankery over, Dwight W. Morrow, Chairman of the Association and famed J. P. Morgan partner, rose. There was something to be done, he said. The Knabe-Ampico Piano Co. had given a piano to be auctioned off. Who would beat the gavel ? "Oh, there you are!" said Mr. Morrow, spying Joseph P. Day, famed amateur auctioneer...
...behalf of the delegates, a Near East Relief worker presented Dr. Speer with a gavel. The worker declared this gavel had been made by children of Nazareth in a little shop across the street from the site of Joseph's carpenter shop...
...minutes before the gavel, the Senate was deserted save for pages and ushers. When they did come, all came at once. Handshaking proceeded apace, at the doors, down the aisles, over the seats...
...Philadelphia, 2,000 men of law hushed their private conversations at the bang of Robert E. Lee Saner's gavel. Forthwith he, as President, opened the 47th Annual Convention of the American Bar Association...