Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newsmen in flannels and white linen danced, sipped punch, ate ice cream in the state dining room, showed their wives and friends through the ground floor rooms, down to the swimming pool and out on the terrace. Instead of retiring early as he does at state affairs, the President stayed up until 11:30 and Mrs. Roosevelt did not leave until 1:00. ¶ Congress sent President Roosevelt a bill to equalize nationalization rights for men and women and grant U. S. citizenship to children born abroad of U. S. mothers. The State Department reported to the White House that...
Last week it was International Mercantile Marine's turn and Philip Albright Small Franklin told his tale. Able executive and man of orderly habits-who keeps his desk clean by filing his papers on the floor of his office-Mr. Franklin has served I. M. M. since 1902 when J. P. Morgan put it together in the hope that it would become a great and profitable shipping trust, is today the No. 1 tycoon of U. S. shipping. When he became president of I. M. M. in 1921 he was also a great tycoon of shipping...
...afternoon last week, a dark-skinned crickety little man jumped from a taxi into a Broadway barber shop, had himself shaved, dashed for his office, summoned a stenographer and in a plaintive singsong voice dictated a dozen lines of verse. He read them over ruefully as he paced the floor. His subject was old songs and he was worried for fear it would sound conceited...
...year to two months. Berlin, the businessman, has a log kept to show the number of times his songs are broadcast over the three major networks. But he forgets to call for it the days he arrives downtown with a song in his head. Then he paces the floor and dictates the lyric, rushes to his big old piano, strikes an F sharp chord and painstakingly picks out the tune while a musical stenographer writes down the notes. Irving Berlin never had a music lesson. He plays by ear, in only one key. If he wants the effect of another...
...Freshman Jubilee last night held no charms for George Ford '37, star athlete of the Freshman Class. Ford, while in the process of decorating the Union for the festive occasion toppled from an 18-foot ladder and came down with a crash on the cement floor. As he struck the floor, the ladder, not to be outdone, came down...