Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyer, private secretary to the High Commissioner for South-Africa, justice of the peace, soldier, Wartime director of Information (propaganda), book publisher, director of Reuter's news agency, member of Parliament from the Scottish Universities. He has written a score of excellent adventure stories, such as The Dancing Floor, Greenmantle, The Path of the King, and has shown a brilliant flair for dishing up heroes in immensely scholarly, reasonable and sound biographies: Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Scott...
...Museum's second floor was devoted to modern pictures by such standbys as Marsh, Curry, Benton, Biddle, Hopper, Burchfield, Sloan, et al. More interesting were the 19th Century paintings that filled the ground floor-sentimental middle-class canvases by comfortable middle-class artists entirely unaware of breadlines, the plight of the masses, the villainy of capitalists or any of the other things that excited the brushes of their successors upstairs...
...income tax evasion. He began, according to his custom, a campaign of retaliation, singling out Postmaster General Farley as the Administration's Achilles heel. Democratic leaders thought they had to reply and in no time public interest filled the Senate galleries whenever Senator Long appeared on the floor. He became a national character, which from his standpoint was both enjoyable and profitable...
...station name in Cyrillic and Latin script!) a Yugoslavian soldier boards the train and inexcusably in the roughest way, with no explanations, arrests the two Americans and the Slav. ... In the middle of the room officers are sitting around a large table eating. They throw bones on the floor, drink wine and lick their fingers! This abominable scene filled the American public with wonder and at the time caused merriment and hilarity. The officers speak half Serbian and half English! . . . The fugitives travel by automobile toward Belgrade. On the way they see a company of Yugoslavian troops approaching. The chauffeur...
...General Electric Building there was being proudly displayed last week a squat, flat-roofed prefabricated house which may eventually put the builders of General Electric's prize houses out of business. Since mid-February as many as a thousand persons a day have crowded into the ninth floor corridors of Grand Central Palace to view this latest stepchild of U.S. mass production...