Committee Meeting

They are busily committee-meeting, Teacher Appreciation – lunching, and catapulting their children from Van Nuys High School directly into Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Caltech, Berkeley! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Miss Farish, it appeared, had just left the committee-meeting of a struggling charity in which she was interested. ❋ Edith Wharton (1987)

In the evening, when her father was busy with a committee-meeting and the housekeeper was gossiping with the neighbors, Hans and Marie would climb the garden wall. ❋ Agnes M. [Translator] Dunne (N/A)

I suppose you’ll say you’ve been to another committee-meeting this evening! ❋ Unknown (1922)

I suppose you'll say you've been to another committee-meeting this evening! '' ❋ Unknown (1922)

"I must go to the committee-meeting," Pelle replied hesitatingly. ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)

Again Mr. Spence's committee-meeting tone sounded oddly through his son's strained voice. ❋ Unknown (1910)

He was failing some, and, of course, younger and more progressive men were needed in the villages -- preachers who could keep up with the committee-meeting times in modern church life. ❋ Corra Harris (1902)

He had not spoken to her again, neither on the previous evening nor at breakfast; he had said nothing whatever to any one, except to tell Bessie that he should not be at home for dinner; on committee-meeting days, when he was engaged at the Town Hall, John sometimes dined at the Tiger. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

And if it were not the venison it would be something else; if it were not the housekeeper it would be Mr. Orme, charged with the results of a conference with his agent, a committee-meeting at his club, or any of the other incidents which, by happening to himself, became events. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

With this, the highest compliment she could pay a pupil, Miss Boyle went on her way; and Peggy, after wandering through two or three deserted class-rooms, and breaking in upon a senior committee-meeting of a highly private nature, and walking into a pantry, found herself at last in the gymnasium. ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)

I suppose you’ll say you’ve been to another committee-meeting this evening!” ❋ Unknown (2004)

I suppose you'll say you've been to another committee-meeting this evening! " ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)