Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voice went on, describing: "This room from which I speak was the scene of work and accomplishments of our Presidents for over a century. Into this room first came John Adams, who had taken over the reins of administration of the newly established republic from George Washington. Each President in the long procession of years down to Roosevelt worked at this fireside...
...here where the Adamses, father and son, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Grant, McKinley, Roosevelt and a score of other devoted men worked. Here worked Lincoln. It is a room crowded with memories of the courage and the high aspirations and the high accomplishments of the American presidents...
...Some months ago I proposed to the world that we should further reduce and limit naval arms. . . . And daily in this room do I receive evidence of almost universal prayer that this negotiation shall succeed...
These and other hotels in Hamilton, Ont., Erie, Toronto and Niagara Falls, which together can supply 10,351 people each with a room to sleep in, were linked financially by Dillon, Read & Co. into United International Hotels, Inc. Last year's combined receipts from sleepers and eaters in these hotels...
...large room in a modest hotel on a Manhattan side street last week met a number of women and seven men. They sat at card-tables in groups of four. Of the women, who were between the ages of 25 and 55, some were dressed with the restraint of style that indicates expense and others had an air of neatly inadequate penury. But all were businesslike. Of the men, one caught first attention-a stoutish man in a pincenez, with a broad waistcoat crossed by a gold watch-chain, who spent most of his time standing beside a blackboard. This...