Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's North Side, police found an abandoned Ford sedan, with blood-stained seats and empty cartridges lying on its floor, identified it as a car seized by the Dillinger gang in St. Paul last month. Promptly they scoured the city, north and south...
Since he became Pope twelve years ago, Pius XI has never spent a night away from his chambers in the Vatican, third floor front. He has left Vatican City only half a dozen times since he gained his freedom by the Lateran Treaties in 1929. Last week it was announced that the Pope would presently leave for a two-month holiday in the Barberine Palace at Castel Gandolfo in the cool Alban Hills, 17 miles from Rome. There he will hold regular audiences, stroll through his vineyards and gardens, admire his cows in their spotless stalls, his chickens in their...
...elderly man,' she says. 'When the cup was passed to me there was a discharge on the rim nearest, so obvious and unmistakable that I fainted. I was told afterwards that the clergyman and the person on my left caught the cup before it reached the floor.' . . ."-Harold F. James, Rochester, N. Y. "I myself 'caught' typhoid fever from a sick parishioner, although I carefully washed my hands immediately after administering to them the Holy Communion."-Rev. John Munday, Temple City, Calif. "Every priest knows that many people, particularly the elderly, have very active salivary...
Wines and beer will be on the menu to sharpen the aesthetic sense of even the dullest dullard, while Conductor Arthur Fielder will present a program of light music of popular as well as familiar airs. Tickets for tables at box office prices, range from $2.00 on the floor to $1.50 and $1.00 in the balcony. The music lover suffering from impecuniosity will be admitted...
Last week in a big, bright room on the eighth floor of its Chicago administration building was held a corporation's annual meeting for which the build-up had been long & loud. The horrid-sounding charges which Joseph I. Zook, as head of a self-appointed stockholders protective "association," had been hurling at Montgomery Ward's management insured good attendance. Even the Armour brothers, Philip and Lester, dropped in to pick up a few pointers from Ward's quick-witted President-Chairman Sewell Lee Avery...