Quotes About Cloakroom

No," Father said, wiping a hand across a sweat-glistened brow. "They were using both entrances, and you can bet your sister's headed for one of them." Paladin was still sweeping the room, its dome spinning around, lights flashing agitatedly behind the glass. "All right," I said. "You go back to the cloakroom, where we came in. I'll go to the south entrance." "Can I trust you to come back?" Father asked. "Of course.

In that August of 1957, however, the cloakroom was often crowded, with senators talking earnestly on sofas and standing in animated little groups, and sometimes the glances between various groups were not comradely at all—sometimes, in fact, they glinted with a barely concealed hostility, and the narrow room simmered with tension, for the main issue before the Senate that summer was civil rights, a proposed law intended to make voting easier for millions of black Americans

Over six feet tall, with a flowing handlebar mustache, he dressed in well-tailored suits and black bow ties and was a man of presence and intelligence. Rarely did he debate in public; the cloakroom, the back corridor, was where his work was done. A reporter with the New York Tribune noted the "side whiskers close cut" and the "brilliant dark eyes which he fastens closely upon the person with whom he is conversing.

when you have the honour to find yourself in the company of ordinary men and the good fortune to be out of politics for a moment, please try to pick up the heart that you leave behind at the cloakroom of the Lower and Upper House.

Inside the Republican cloakroom, one joke McConnell enjoyed telling was about Trump's former secretary of state Rex Tillerson, a cabinet member he had liked. In 2017, the State Department had strongly denied Tillerson called Trump a "moron.

to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel

a heavy, hooded wool