Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pleased with the prospect of getting $50, Dean Eldridge said: "I am going to tile the bathroom floor...
...from the runway into the cage, slithered along an upward-sloping row of pedestals until he was crouched on the highest one. Two tigers came in and took their places beside him. Ten or twelve more beasts entered. While some of these were still milling around on the cage floor, Clyde Beatty, holding a blank-loaded pistol and a steel-bolted chair in his left hand and a whip in his right jumped into the cage, slapped the gate shut behind, pranced, crouched, cracked his whip. A lion made a tentative lunge at him. The pistol barked, the chair legs...
...facilitate the recording by R.C.A. Victor, the audience was requested to refrain from applause between numbers. Restraint was broken at the close by over five minutes clapping, as Woodworth shook hands with Koussevitzky. Only one chair was overturned; only one book had fallen to the floor. The records will not be ready for sale for at least three months...
...room makes for this. He will not have a whole group of room-mates rushing in, nor will the tramp of many feet along the hall disturb him, for all of the rooms are singles or doubles and there are never more than four rooms on one floor of an entry...
Attracted by his calls, the landlady, Mrs. Mary Louise Donovan, rushed to his second floor room. While she attempted to remove his clothes, a friend called the Fire Department, which arrived soon after to find Perkins still in flames, but mumbling over and over, "Awfully sorry...