Word: storeroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Lady's chamber went two workmen last week, lugging shiny green holly wreaths, one for each window of the White House. Downstairs all was Christmas rush. Bookkeeper Henry Nesbitt listed stacks of early gifts; Housekeeper Mrs. Nesbitt thumbed over the State linen, bargained with tradesmen, checked the storeroom's loaded shelves of cans and bottled goods. The cook pirouetted with dignity around the 24-foot electric stove, carefully sniffed the game rack, where hung pheasants, quail, ducks, grouse, and woodcocks waiting till they were high enough for a President's taste...
Atop Sever Hall workmen are converting an old storeroom into one of the University's finest lecture halls, which will go into commission next semester...
...front was yellow, blue and red. Inside, the woodwork was bleached oak. The walls were pastel blue. The goods were displayed on the counters in grocery-store fashion. In the back was a storeroom. The price was $6,500 for the store (which naturally did not include the building), $3,500 for the stock. In two days Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett sold nine stores...
...bundled out a few paintings each weekend for flattered friends. Value of the stolen art, all of it rejected paintings submitted for the annual Academy show, officials placed at no more than $800. But Cassidy's cuts on the "second and third rate works" in the Academy storeroom had reduced their worth by "thousands of dollars...
...performance seemed doomed when no one would vouch for the $1,500 check even though Mrs. Albion insisted "this is one of the loveliest performances ever given and we want you to see it." Some one suddenly remembered that there was a folding portable organ hidden away in a storeroom. Up onto the stage in answer to a call for volunteers marched Mme Marie Zalipsky...