hall-room

Updated: June 24, 2025

Some of 'em would poke him with their fingers to see if he was real or only a kind of a stuffed figure like they burn in elegy. And when he'd move they'd squeak, and make eyes at him as they went up to the slosh. He looked fine in his halberdashery. He slept at $2 a week in a hall-room on Third Avenue. He invited me up there one night.

O. Henry - Roads of Destiny

"They certainly are very 'New York," assented Lathrop, "and very tough." "I thought," whispered Miss Farrar, "those from New York with the Red Army were picked men." "What does it matter?" exclaimed Lathrop. "It's just as humiliating to be captured by a hall-room boy as by a mere millionaire! I can't insist on the invading army being entirely recruited from Harvard graduates."

Richard Harding Davis - Once Upon A Time