Word: hallways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week ago Tuesday night, while Republican Governor John A. Volpe was holding a reception in the Louis XIV Ballroom, across the hallway in the Empress Room was Lt. Gov, Elliot L. Richardson '41 and his people, and down the hallway was the Democratic State Treasurer Robert Q. Crane. Two friends of Crane's, on the way to his reception in the Princess Room, stopped by Volpe's celebration. They watched the TV cameras, listend to the band play "Louis, Louis," gulped down a glass of punch, and left. On the way out, one turned to the other and said, "There...
...sound of tinkling glass and brief, faint, clicking sounds. Assuming that one of her children had knocked over a drinking glass, she sank back into sleep. Minutes later she was awakened again by a deep, agonized moaning. Mrs. Percy leaped out of bed and followed the sound down the hallway to Valerie's room. Inside, she saw a shadowy figure bent over Valerie's bed. The intruder instantly straightened up, whirled about and transfixed Loraine Percy in the blinding glare of a powerful flashlight. Screaming, she ran back to the master bedroom, where she punched a wall button...
...know when you nauseated me most? Do you know? Not when you were retching all over the house. Not when you'd stagger through the hallway cursing us and threatening Mother. Not when we'd find you lying in the snow by the front step after a four day drunk. Not when the three of us had to carry you to your bad because you couldn't stand on your own two feet. No, none of these times. It was always the following day when you'd sobered up sufficiently enough to feel guilty. When you'd come back...
...Californians in their social announcements. Sometimes this leads to an attempt at creating instant age; at ceremonies marking the opening of its original library building, U.C.L.A. authorities issued a statement that it was hereby declared "traditional" never to step on the seal embedded in the middle of the main hallway. But such exercises in nostalgia or the manufacture of new traditions do not change the fact of rampant change, which evokes a turn-of-the-century observation from the Tascosa (Texas) Pioneer: "Truly this is a world which has no regard for the established order of things, but knocks them...
...weeks and weeks, Mrs. Anne Potter Hamilton Hunt Spalding had been wondering what Son George's new girl was really like. All she knew for sure was that the young lady came from reputable stock, as attested by a photograph of her father on the hallway table inside the 39-room Beverly Hills mansion. The inscription...