Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Celebrating his 70th birthday at London's P.E.N. Club banquet, said H. G. Wells: "I just hate it. I feel like a youngster sitting on the floor with all my games spread out before me. . . . It is as if my nurse were coming to me to say: 'Bertie, it is getting late-time to put those toys away...
Belgian Village--Swing down to Federal Street and get the surprise of your life. Excellent French cuisine and a red hot floor show in a continental atmosphere. No cover charge...
...Floor shows . . . . Where are we going after the Dartmouth game . . . ? Theatrical, Crescent, or Towne--Levaggi, or Mayfair, or Merry Go Round...
...Play of the Four PP's" is an "Interlude." A development of the Moralities, the gayer and less reverent Interludes were plays, staged before kings or nobles in the banquet hall . . . . The Tudor equivalent of floor shows...
...special car pulled by a special engine. Dr. Ernst's dynamite arrived. Confronted with the difficulty of transporting a package no bigger than a soap box which was nonetheless capable of blowing up a complete train, du Pont had hired a whole boxcar, nailed the crate to the floor in the middle, sealed the doors, plastered the outside with placards screaming EXPLOSIVES! The car was then coupled to a regular freight train, rolled north to Poughkeepsie. No freight train was available to carry the car on to Stanfordville, so it was coupled to an engine which made a special...