Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Augustus Lindbergh of Little Falls, Minn, was in Congress. Like many of his colleagues, he sometimes took his 9-year-old son and namesake on the floor of the House. There he usually entrusted the yellow-haired youngster to his favorite doorkeeper, Sam Foley. The War came and Pacifist Representative Lindbergh was retired to private life and Sam Foley returned to his home in New York's Bronx to study...
...nothing serious was the matter and according to Captain Mahoney of the Yard Police the trouble was caused by a broken pipe in the basement. About two inches of water covered the floor of the cellar but no damage was done to the first floor...
...paintings by Hermann Dudley Murphy, instructor in Drawing and Painting in Harvard's School of Landscape Architecture, comprise an exhibit in galleries on the first floor of the Museum...
...unusual as Brasher's bird pictures will be the museum Connecticut intends to build in the Berkshires' Kent State Park. It will be a round, three-story structure, capable of holding 2,500 persons at one time. Visitors will climb ramps from the first floor to a rotunda on the second. There the circular floor space will be divided into twelve pie-like segments. At the end of each segment, facing the rotunda, will be hung the twelve biggest and best Brashers, to be viewed by visitors without moving from the building's centre. The other Brasher...
...Authors. Because they are poets, Robinson, Spender and Auden are not typical citizens of their respective countries. Old Poet Robinson, Maine-born, Harvard-bred, chose the uncrowded profession of poet at an early age. Establishing himself in Manhattan "in a sordid stall on the fifth floor of a dreary house," he kept himself and Pegasus fed by doing odd jobs, was once a construction inspector on the subway. Only U.S. poet ever reviewed by a U.S. President, Robinson got more attention when Theodore Roosevelt wrote an encomium of his poetry in the Outlook, and offered him a consulship in Mexico...