Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month she invited the dancer, now Roberta Jonay to dance at the Press Party in the White House (TIME, June 7). Result: Miss Jonay got a job in the floor show at Washington's Shoreham. Ever-generous Mrs. Roosevelt insisted that her friend stay on under her great roof, sleeping in the Rose Room, taking her meals with the family, traveling out Connecticut Ave. every evening in a White House limousine to do her 15-minute turn at the Shoreham. Last week Roberta Jonay, bound for Broadway, was as morally certain of landing a good...
...abandon his commoner wife, the former Mme Jana Lucia Deletj. Present at the dinner were Queen Mother Marie, Prince Nicholas, Crown Prince Mihai. When Carol proposed a toast to his own red-haired commoner friend, Magda Lupescu, 15-year-old Crown Prince Mihai dropped his champagne glass on the floor. Carol took a running kick at him. Nicholas intervened. A gun, supposedly Nicholas', went off. Queen Marie got a bullet in her middle, began to vomit blood...
...Robinson of Philadelphia, U. S. amateur heavyweight champion, scored the evening's sensation. Given the edge over Nino Paoletti, Italian champion, after the first round, Robinson promptly staggered from a right to the jaw, slumped to the floor. Rising on Referee Jack Dempsey's count of nine, he wobbled through the rest of the second round, toppled Paoletti in the third, won the decision...
...Operator Farquhar J. Southbound at Portage and Main at 1:10. Two men (drunk) sitting about centre of car felt sick, and before getting off vomited on floor near window. Liquid trickled through panel on floor causing a short circuit. . . . Spark from short circuit caused the alcohol to explode and the flame shot upwards and singed the eyebrows of Mr. W. Alsip, 216 Stafford. . . . Mr. Alsip said he was all right...
Last week Lawyer Hurley, suing Lawyer Williams and the three policemen for $25,000 damages for his arrest, put on his 1932 bathing suit, sploshed water on it, sprawled on the floor in Judge William J. Lindsay's Superior Courtroom in Chicago. The jury giggled and gaped, deliberated 95 minutes, decided in favor of Lawyer Williams but assessed $100 damages against the three policemen who had defaulted by not appearing...