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Press gallery   /prɛs gˈæləri/   Listen
Press gallery

noun
1.
An area (sometimes in a balcony) set aside for reporters (especially in a legislative hall).






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"Press gallery" Quotes from Famous Books



... of mine in the Press Gallery used to represent "I have yet to learn that the Government" by a little twirl, and "What did the right honourable gentleman do, Mr. Speaker? He had the audacity" by ...
— The Free Press • Hilaire Belloc

... Globe-trotter, has just completed a remarkable journey. Within the space of a few weeks he has traversed the distance from the Press Gallery to the Floor of the Chamber, going round by the Wrekin. During the last stage of the route the intrepid traveller was accompanied by Sir HENRY DALZIEL ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 3rd, 1920 • Various

... took counsel with the gray Nestor of the press gallery—a past master at his craft ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis

... it in full?" said Phyllis. She had an ample experience of the decimation of his questions as well as speeches by the members of the press gallery. They had reduced it ...
— Phyllis of Philistia • Frank Frankfort Moore

... of what, it is hoped, will be a long series of articles, descriptive of the House of Commons, is here appended. The author is Mr. Henry Lucy, who has spent nearly a quarter of a century in the Press Gallery of the House, and who, in addition to much other successful journalistic work, has, in the character of "Toby, M.P.," supplied to our distinguished contemporary, "Punch" some of its most amusing sketches. "From Behind the Speaker's Chair" will be continued, and ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various



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