Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaker Nicholas Longworth of the House has long had a woman secretary, able and personable Miss Mildred E. Reeves of the District of Columbia. Her bobbed hair, olive complexion and wine-colored dresses are familiar decorations of the House, where she can generally be seen in a rear seat on the Democratic side watching legislation hawk-eyed. With women in its membership, the House is used to having women on its floor; hence it admitted women secretaries long ago. But not the Senate, where men are statesmen. Women members of the House may tread there. And "grand old" Mrs. Rebecca...
...first annual Military Ball will be held by the units of the University at the Copley-Plaza Hotel this evening, beginning promptly at 9:30 o'clock. Rear Admiral and Mrs. W. S. Sims will head the receiving line...
...leave by the door opposite where he came in. If he did, he would find himself in the President's telephone ("Main 6") and cloakroom or, beyond that, in the Cabinet Room with its long low reddish table, set about with black leather chairs.* Instead, he marches right rear to a door letting him into another corridor. Now he must turn to the left. To the right is the way the President goes when returning to the White House (via the basement) or when going out to his posinground to be photographed...
...Broadway, Manhattan, stands the home bank of Guaranty Trust Co., U. S. billion-dollar bank. At No. 31 Nassau St., Manhattan, stands the home bank of National Bank of Commerce, U. S. almost-billion-dollar bank. Should a ghost with the gift of flitting through walls flit through the rear wall of Guaranty Trust and continue flitting, it would flit through the rear wall of National Bank of Commerce. For these two great U. S. banks stand back to back. Between them they own almost the entire block bounded by Broadway and Nassau, Cedar, Liberty Streets...
Commander Grady has been examining the situation in Shepherd Hall for the last few days; if his present plans are carried out, his department will occupy the entire first floor together with some rooms in the rear of the second floor. The rest of the building, however, will not be altered, but will continue to serve as a dormitory...