All 19 Uses of
delegate
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Babbitt
- Babbitt was an official delegate; another was Cecil Rountree, whom Babbitt admired for his picaresque speculative building, and hated for his social position, for being present at the smartest dances on Royal Ridge.†
Chpt 13
- Besides the five official delegates to the convention—Babbitt, Rountree, W. A. Rogers, Alvin Thayer, and Elbert Wing—there were fifty unofficial delegates, most of them with their wives.†
Chpt 13
- Besides the five official delegates to the convention—Babbitt, Rountree, W. A. Rogers, Alvin Thayer, and Elbert Wing—there were fifty unofficial delegates, most of them with their wives.†
Chpt 13
- The official delegates were magnificent with silver and magenta ribbons.†
Chpt 13
- As the delegates arrived, not in taxicabs but in the family automobile driven by the oldest son or by Cousin Fred, they formed impromptu processions through the station waiting-room.†
Chpt 13
- Down the echoing spaces of the hall the delegates paraded after Willy Lumsen's banner, the men waving their cigars, the women conscious of their new frocks and strings of beads, all singing to the tune of Auld Lang Syne the official City Song, written by Chum Frink: Good old Zenith, Our kin and kith, Wherever we may be, Hats in the ring, We blithely sing Of thy Prosperity.†
Chpt 13
- Babbitt perceived that as an official delegate he must be more dignified.†
Chpt 13
- But on the train his pride was restored by meeting delegates from Sparta, Pioneer, and other smaller cities of the state, who listened respectfully when, as a magnifico from the metropolis of Zenith, he explained politics and the value of a Good Sound Business Administration.†
Chpt 13
- The delegates were entertained, incessantly and firmly.†
Chpt 13
- Without request, the Zenith delegates (except Rountree) gathered round a marble dancing nymph and sang "Here we come, the fellows from Zenith, the Zip Citee."†
Chpt 13
- It chanced that all the delegates from Pioneer belonged to the Brotherly and Protective Order of Elks, and they produced an enormous banner lettered: "B.†
Chpt 13
- The leader of the Galop de Vache delegation was a large, reddish, roundish man, but active.†
Chpt 13
- He had in fifteen minutes changed from a minor delegate to a personage almost as well known as that diplomat of business, Cecil Rountree.†
Chpt 13
- After the meeting, delegates from all over the state said, "Hower you, Brother Babbitt?"†
Chpt 13
- The delegations were presenting the claims of their several cities to the next year's convention.†
Chpt 13
- At half-past seven they sat in their room, with Elbert Wing and two up-state delegates.†
Chpt 13
- In the entr'actes they met other lone delegates.†
Chpt 13 *
- You know during the war we had the Undesirable Element, the Reds and walking delegates and just the plain common grouches, dead to rights, and so did we for quite a while after the war, but folks forget about the danger and that gives these cranks a chance to begin working underground again, especially a lot of these parlor socialists.†
Chpt 29
- Then if that don't work, the G. C. L. can finally send a little delegation around to inform folks that get too flip that they got to conform to decent standards and quit shooting off their mouths so free.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(delegate as in: is a delegate) a person appointed or elected to represent others