Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violently to Secretary Dern that the Army should not allow such an attack on his WPA. The War Department undoubtedly felt that General Hagood had been talking out of turn too long. Republican Senator Metcalf hung full responsibility for the Hagood ouster on President Roosevelt by declaring on the floor of the Senate, and it was not denied, that the General's case had been discussed at a recent Cabinet meeting at the White House. To take the curse of politics off its action, the War Department resorted to the extraordinary procedure of publishing a memorandum from Chief...
...purpose. I can suggest this purpose by describing the entrance of the lover. . . . Meierhold places the lady at the foot of a tin slide, the lover climbs up a ladder to the top of the slide, zooms down it, feet first, knocks the lady off onto the floor and shouts something that sounds like Russian for 'Whee...
...face is like a mask when she dances. For Frontiers her principal gesture is to raise one leg, rest it on a fence (see cut p. 53). Her intention is to give the effect of space, of peaceful contemplation. Jumps into the air mean joy, a collapse to the floor implies grief or destruction. In Horizons, her latest creation, her girls have a passage where they place their hands behind their necks, rotate their heads from side to side. They are supposed to be hesitating, wondering whether they should go to the right or the left...
Young Roger Knapp can lift 1,165 Ib. attached to a bar across his thighs. He can raise 765 Ib. shoulder high, has a 159-Ib. grip with his left hand, a 155-lb. grip with his right. He chins himself 30 times in succession. Stretched on the floor, he raises and lowers himself by his arms 80 times in succession. He weighs 175 Ib., stands...
Glidden, always a smooth tournament player went through three quick games with hardly a fault, making numerous "boast shots" which crack three walls and finally nick a corner to fall dead on the floor...