Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite so brief was the first session of the House. All but eight of its 322 Democrats, 102 Republicans, seven Progressives and three Farmer-Laborites were present for the first roll call, babbling, backslapping, leading their children about the floor, waving to their wives in the galleries, trying out the new spittoons. First job for the House was to elect Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns to be Speaker. vice Henry T. Rainey, deceased. They did it with a cheer (see below). Their next job was to change their rules. They did it without blinking an eye (see below...
Riding the scorpion of Cuban politics with a charmed life. President Carlos Mendieta last week threw himself to the floor of his automobile as a bomb exploded beside the road. To such unreasoning attacks Mendieta has a stock reply and he made it again last week: "I am ready to resign as soon as Cuba has selected a government to succeed this provisional one over which I preside." Put into office a year ago. Mendieta has scheduled elections for March...
...final scene, with lights out and the Mantee gang exchanging gunfire with the deputies outside while Alan and Gabrielle lie on the floor with their arms around each other, should raise audiences' hackles higher than anything on the Manhattan stage since the Group Theatre began producing its blood-&-thunder Red melodramas. Spectators get to hoping desperately that in the general gunplay, Duke Mantee (able Humphrey Bogart in a stubble beard) will somehow forget to shoot Actor Howard, who has turned in another of his fragile, impressively assured impersonations to adorn a notable career. But everyone must know...
...crowing reached the alert ears of Alfred Emanuel Smith on the 32nd floor of the Empire State Building. As chairman of the advisory committee of the Legion of Decency which is making cinema companies toe the mark (TIME, June 11, et seq.), Mr. Smith called for a copy of the law Mr. Burke considered so exemplary. It read: "A person who willfully and lewdly exposes his person, or the private parts thereof, in any public place or in any other place where others are present, or procures another so to expose himself is guilty of a misdemeanor...
German comedian. His enormous Gladstone collars generally have the patina of an ancient manuscript. He hates beds and regular meals, cooks what he wants when he is hungry and sleeps on the attic floor rolled up in a blanket. To counteract his habit of forgetting things his watch, his pocketbook, fountain pen, keys, etc. are attached to his clothes by an intricate system of safety pins and odd bits of string. He knows Goethe's Faust by heart, writes and speaks Latin fluently, discourses familiarly on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Spengler, hates beer...