Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seven-thirty and a cold morning! How I hate to get out of my bed and shut down the two windows between which my bed is placed, but at last I screw up my courage and with a leap I am out on the floor and hastily closing the windows. Then 15 minutes of setting-up exercises, a cold sponge and on with my riding clothes...
After 17 long days in the Senate Appropriations Committee the President's bill giving him $4,000,000,000 for work relief plus $880,000.000 to continue present relief programs, saw the light of the Senate floor. Carter Glass, who in Committee had voted unsuccessfully to cut it down to a $2,880,000,000 dole, as Appropriations Chairman dutifully expounded its purpose. When he had finished, Senator Borah inquired...
...renewal, he was painfully aware that he was about to set off a fresh batch of oratorical pinwheels and skyrockets at the Capitol. Congressmen had not had a good rousing debate on NRA for more than a year and practically every member was spoiling to take the floor and fulminate on some minor grievance of NRA Administration within his district. There would be much noise, the President knew, and some light-but NRA would undoubtedly be renewed just about as the President wanted...
...entire floor of Rome's modernistic Ministry of Corporations clatters all day with the ordered bedlam of statistical machines. Last week they rang up a total of exactly 155,518 Italians re-employed since Oct. 16 as a direct result of an experiment begun that day by the Corporative State...
...farm at Berwyn Heights, Md., Douglas Schall, son of Minnesota's blind Senator Thomas David Schall, was poring late over his Georgetown University law books. Sniffing smoke, he looked out the window of his second-story room, saw flames licking up from a garage on the ground floor. Douglas pulled on a bathrobe, yelled "Fire" at his sleeping younger brother Richard, stumbled downstairs with Richard after him. While Douglas & Richard drove out two of the seven cars in the garage, a Negro servant crawled through a window to rescue a Scotch terrier they had left upstairs. In the house...