Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permitted to pass through the Marine guard, enter the Hoover camp on a professional tour of inspection. On a plateau 2,500 ft. up in the mountains, they found scenes of lyric wilderness. They heard waterfalls that lulled the President to sleep (his own description), inspected the huge living room with its 51-ton stone fireplace, marveled at the urban conveniences in such a rustic setting...
...sharpshooting police officers, armed with shotguns and revolvers surrounded an apartment building on Chicago's West Side. Some went on the roof while others climbed three flights of rickety stairs to a rear apartment. There they cut the wire out of a screen door, stepped into a room, found a sheepish little fellow of 25 with round pink cheeks, black hair, innocent hazel eyes. He was pulling on a pair of socks. It was Willie Doody. Tamely he surrendered, said he was "relieved" the chase was over, blamed "bad company" for his troubles...
...pioneers were frostbitten, ugly, rough-tongued, heavyhanded, but they spent nights in their half-built factories tightening nuts on rush orders with their own hands, and days in the offices of friends, trying to raise money and postpone payments. William Crapo Durant, twice head of General Motors, left a room full of irritated financial patrons to eat apple pie, and, mouth full, to roar full-chested laughter at a squib...
...stately halls of Kronberg castle there was last week babbling in many tongues, laughter, chatter, applause. Two thousand delegates to the International Educationists' Congress fought for room in the old knights' hall. Those who could not get in scurried off to the great privy council hall where loud speakers squawked preparatory to relaying speeches from the knights' hall...
...Dewey Method, the Dalton Plan, the Winnetka (Ill.) Technique. U. S. delegates compared methods, tried their ability in foreign languages and prepared to be off for more vacation, more conferences. Proudly they postcarded home that they had stood where Hamlet heard his father's ghost, had seen the room where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern told the King that as old student friends of Hamlet they could cure his lunacy...