Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been assaulted by four Cambridge youths in the yard of a house on Grant Street, as he was taking a short cut to Dunstor House from Central Square. They chased him to the third floor of Leverett House, D entry, whence they were escorted by the Janitor...
Next morning, however, when the grandchildren rushed into the bedroom of the President of the U. S. to take their stockings from his mantelpiece, when the family assembled around the Christmas tree in the second-floor hall, and later when they went to the Church of the Covenant, filling an entire row at an interdenominational Christmas service, Mrs. Roosevelt was absent. During the night she had sped to Boston to spend Christmas at Franklin Jr.'s bedside. Although doctors finally refused to let him go home for Christmas, he was still officially described as "doing fine." all rumors...
...half acres resound with hammers and saws. In a final and most remarkable mutation, the old Klan property is now hallowed Catholic ground. Picked up for $32,500 by the shepherd of all Georgia's Catholics, Bishop Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara of Savannah, the ground floor of the old Palace has already been made into a chapel, consecrated as part of a new parish: "Christ the King." When a $200,000 church and a $32,000 parochial school are completed on the property, the Palace will become a Catholic teachers' home...
...Jersey troopers then discovered that Brunette had lately married a resident of upper Broadway, set a watch on her family's house. At this point, according to police, the G-men offered to join forces with them. Together they traced Brunette's wife to a ground-floor apartment on West 102nd Street. Two New York detectives, one New Jersey trooper and one G-man were planted in the same house and in an adjoining house. Plans were made to seize Brunette, a daytime sleeper, one afternoon last week...
Challenged from the floor on this point, Representative Fish blurted: "If you want me to tell the whole truth I will, and it will be 100% worse than what I've said. The Republican Party itself inspired the sending out of vicious attacks on Social Security in pay envelopes. Why. I have letters from William Allen White and other liberals denouncing this practice in such language that I could not use it before this assembly...