Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absurd impression" that the Prime Minister had dictatorial ambitions, would find it more diffi. cult from now on. "I frankly say that I despair when I listen to speeches like that to which I've listened this afternoon." Then, despairing Member Cartland trooped off to the smoking room to abstain from voting on a measure of confidence, as did some 40 other Conservatives. The cloakrooms gossiped that party whips handed the names of abstainers to Mr. Chamberlain, were demanding Mr. Cartland's political hamstringing, that Mr. Chamberlain, like Mr. Roosevelt, faced a purge of his own party...
Cinema cycles usually begin when some foresighted or lucky producer scores a bull's-eye with a shot in the dark. They usually last until there is no room left on the target. Last week there was a volley of shots-in-the-dark when three major moviemakers simultaneously fired away at the same place, released big-budget pictures chronicling the doings of the white man in Africa. Two bull's-eyes and one clean miss, last week's African broadside practically amounted to a cinema cycle in itself...
...Bellairs and his colleagues on the police beat used to accost farmers bringing produce to the city, demand a license for each separate vegetable, give the frightened farmers mock trials in the press room at headquarters, fine them, buy whiskey with the booty...
...Louis Globe in 1890, when he was 21. He left the Globe for the Chronicle, left the Chronicle for the Post-Dispatch, left the Post-Dispatch to return to the Star-Chronicle, which, as the Star-Times, now pays him his salary. Sitting in the press room at headquarters one day in 1898, Reporter Bellairs heard four bombs go off, the Chronicle's signal to the city that the Spanish-American War had started. Said he jokingly: "In a few minutes the phone will ring and it'll be Tarbell telling me that I'm to cover...
Smitty is proudest of his house and his accordion. Of all the rooms in his house he likes the bathroom best. He is also fond of the recreation room in his basement, in which the first thing visitors see is a large sign saying: "IF YOU ARE SO SMART WHY AIN'T YOU RICH...