I fell asleep i'th' Lobby, Sir, and had not waken'd Yet, but for the Musick which plays at the Lodgings Of my Lady Erminia.

I was in the fencing-rooms of Monsieur Angelo, and in the salon-de-boxe of Monsieur Jackson, and in the club of Brooks, and in the lobby of the Chamber of Deputies, but nowhere did I hear any news.

D'Azeglio (the Piedmontese Minister) and some other foreigners were waiting in the lobby outside, and when Lord Palmerston appeared redoubled their vociferations.

11 The lobby of the Edgewater Hotel was busy.

He didn't want to go down to the lobby and admit to the desk clerk that he was too messed up to remember his room number.

When they were done, Joe walked with her up the steps and into the lobby.

And after each performance Mrs. Lauder stood in the lobby and sold little envelopes full of stamps, "sticky backs," as she called them, like the Red Cross seals that have been sold so long in America at Christmas time.

But the private and disconnected way in which our committee work is done tends to prevent full and instructive discussion in the house, to make the mass of legislation, always chaotic enough, somewhat more chaotic, and to facilitate the various evil devices of lobbying and log-rolling.

We will now make a few remarks upon a body peculiar to America, and known as "the Lobby."

But, first, I would observe that, by a rule in both Houses, changeable at pleasure, ex-members of Congress, ministers, secretaries of legation, &c., are allowed the privilege of coming within the bar to hear debates; and of the people so privileged the Lobby is chiefly composed.

The consequence was an inquiry into the alleged charge, and doubtless it will affect the weight of the Lobby.

He adds"The Lobby has, no doubt, great influence on the Legislature, but it is not yet all-powerful."

Much of the actual lobbying necessary has been done by the girls themselves, and they have exercised a power out of all proportion to their numbers or the tiny treasury at their disposal.

Nor need he have learned much of them then; for he had only to cross the lobby of the east wing, and was in view of the hall barely three seconds.

The remark caused much excitement in the lobby, where this gentleman's humorous sallies never lack appreciators.

The capitalists of Vicksburg contributed the funds for lobbying the bill and commencing the road.

From early morning till late at night the great convention read its papers, ate its luncheons, held its committee meetingstalked, aspired, lobbied, schemed, prayed, sang, rejoiced!

A belated lounger glanced up in surprise as Waring, booted and spurred, entered the lobby with a man in pajamas.

The protective policy has always professedly been advocated for the general welfare to raise wages or to make the country prosperous, but the initiative has always been taken, and the valiant work in contributing funds for campaign purposes and in lobbying bills through Congress has been done, by the interested manufacturers.

Public industry does not have to meet the costs of lobbying and blackmail which are often forced upon private companies.

The Right to Assembly and Free Elections; The Suffrage, 28; The Force Bills; Interference with Voting; Bribery and Corrupt Practices; Lobbying Acts; The Form of the Ballot; Direct Primaries and Nominations; The Distrust of Representative Government; Corrupt Elections Laws; Direct Election of U.S. Senators; Women's Suffrage; Municipal Elections, The Initiative, Referendum, and Recall; The Judicial System.

Then there is the long range of lobby acts aimed at the very serious abuse of lobbying.

Lobbying, laws against (see Bribery); acts.

[Illustration] You are not difficult to please, Although no doubt a trifle "knobby;" Whilst I'm reclining at mine ease, I leave you standing in the lobby.

Now,' said my father, 'I know a little about most legitimate careers, from ticket-punching up to lobbying, and there's not one in which a man would hand in testimonials that he was volatile.