Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before all London watched King Edward VIII follow the body of his father, George V to Westminster Hall last week, a quiet company gathered in nearby Westminster Abbey to watch the cremated ashes of Rudyard Kipling, housed in a marble urn, disappear into the shallow loam under the paved flooring where are mixed the dust of Tennyson, Dickens and Samuel Johnson. At the end of the quiet service the Abbey choir soared into Kipling's stirring Recessional. To honor Britain's great Imperial Poet, the third man in the 20th Century to be buried in the Poets...
Just before sailing for Europe last autumn he got an order for six dozen sets of Politics from Manhattan's F. A. O. Schwarz (toy store), had to call upon guests to help sort thousands of colored pins on his apartment floor. Last week with Politics having advanced from the handicraft stage to the hands of Parker Brothers, Inventor Lord claimed that sales were running above 500 sets per day in stores throughout the land...
...most important U. S. architect of the 19th Century, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week hung a gigantic portrait of him in its lobby, published a scholarly critique of his work,* and displayed photographs and plans of his most important buildings all over the ground floor...
...Richardsonian" buildings, the New York State Capitol, was the cause of a great scandal. He was called in as architect after graft and mismanagement had used $7,000,000 of public funds and only carried the original design of Architects Arthur D. Gilman and Thomas Fuller through the first floor. The graft continued. The handsome metal ceiling that Richardson designed for the Senate Chamber was secretly executed in papier-mache by a political contractor...
...move one new car the average dealer has to sell two and a half used cars. A used-car buyer generally has an old one to trade in too. By the end of the third transaction in this series the dealer will probably have on his floor what the trade calls a "jallopy"'-anything from plain junk to a museum piece...