crying-room

Updated: May 3, 2025

At the end of a long hall they reached a room from which proceeded a variety of howls indeed, a room which, in later parlance, would have been known as the "crying-room." They entered. "Well," gasped Mr. Button, "which is mine?" "There!" said the nurse. Mr. Button's eyes followed her pointing finger, and this is what he saw.

F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald - Tales of the Jazz Age