Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene was Winthrop House; the time was dinner; the chief character a cockroach. According to our informant he was a well fed and healthy-looking specimen, as yet unimpaired by his diet. When first observed he was ambling steadily across the tiled floor. One of the House scientists spotted him, gathered him up and inverted a glass over him in the center of the table, with the apparant intention of studying his life habits...
Crux of the story is the picture of the nude girl in mask and muff. But cinemaudiences never see the model or the drawing. They see only clothes on the floor and people laughing the next day. For spectators with no imagination, the producers carefully took a "still" of Model Hilde von Stolz, distributed it for insertion in cinemansion advertising and programs...
...church on the ground floor of a Manhattan apartment house one day last week three middle-aged bishops consecrated a 33-year-old who thereupon became the youngest bishop in the U. S. Two years ago the youngest was a 32-year-old Roman Catholic, Auxiliary Bishop Raymond Augustine Kearney of Brooklyn (TIME, Jan. 7, 1935). Last week's youngest...
...Commerce, the retailers tend to demonstrate a self-interest that is more enlightened, more realistic. Close to the public, the retailers were long aware of the socio-economic tremors which it required a Roosevelt landslide to jar into the consciousness of manufacturers. Months before the subject reached the floor of Congress, organized retailing was thumping for Social Security. Pensions and benefits swell the public's purchasing power, hence are fine for merchants-and they happened to be popular with the electorate. Popular with part of the electorate are consumer co-operatives but there the retailers draw the line...
Odzinski In Chicago's St. Stanislaus Church, Anthony Odzinski, 53, confessed his sins to Priest Henry Jasinski, then climbed to the fourth floor of an adjoining building, jumped to his death. Priest Jasinski administered last rites...