Perhaps the most famous garments made by Miss Connolly were a linen skirt and cotton blouse worn by Jacqueline Kennedy when she and her children were painted for the White House drawing room.

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Unlocking the value of your house is not the same as drawing money out of a cash machine.

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He also had a pet giraffe which would eat tea with him in the drawing room of the house.

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So, both the House and the Senate went back to the drawing board.

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Malaysians have complained to the White House about election fraud in their country, drawing more than 222, 000 signatures within a week to become the site's second-most popular issue.

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Selected visitors to her business in an 18th-century house in Dublin would be received in her drawing room with its yellow silk wall-coverings and its framed photographs of famous people.

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Meanwhile a cross-party group, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, is drawing up legislation to replace the existing House of Lords with a mainly elected second chamber.

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Despite drawing some bipartisan report, the margin would not be sufficient to override a White House veto.

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Tuesday's vote capped a dramatic day in which Anna Hazare, the 74-year-old public face of the popular anticorruption movement, began a hunger strike in Mumbai, drawing out thousands of supporters to push the government to strengthen the bill submitted to the lower house, known as the Lok Sabha.

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"I firmly believe that American voters, when faced with his reckless ideas for spending and tax hikes, will never allow those ideas to even make it off the drawing board, " said Rep. Deborah Pryce of Ohio, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House.

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