Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week fate struck back at the two-ton wife-killer. Children were tossing peanuts across the moat to Bill. Reaching for a weakly-tossed one, Bill greedily leaned forward, teetered, landed pomph on the concrete floor of the moat...
Since January 30 a stuffy room on the mezzanine floor of Manhattan's Times Square Hotel has been the scene of an inquiry into the domestic relations of one of the most respected members of the U. S. press. The defendant: the New York Times. Its accuser: the American Newspaper Guild. The judge: Trial Examiner Tilford E. Dudley, who will give his findings to the National Labor Relations Board, which will eventually hand down a decision. The charge: violation of the Wagner Act by intimidating and discriminating against Guild members...
Stocky, ruddy, blond George Rea's first act as president of the Curb was to go down on the floor and shake hands with every member there. His grin and his grip augured well for his regime. "The only question on Rea," wrote the Journal-American's Financial Columnist Leslie Gould, "is why would he leave Honolulu . . . when almost anyone downtown would swap a Stock Exchange seat for a good palm tree...
...afternoon last week in the assembly room on the 23rd floor of the Manhattan headquarters of Western Union Telegraph Co., suave old Board Chairman Newcomb Carlton fingered a gavel, peered out anxiously at 200 faces, more of Western Union's 30,772 stockholders than he had ever seen at one time. Western Union's President Roy Barton White, stocky old-time railroad telegrapher, was reading a prepared statement explaining why Western Union had lost $1,637,000 in 1938. When perspiring President White lamely concluded that the report was the company's and not to be considered...
...three years after her arrival in China, she was compelled to read five chapters of the Bible each morning, ten on Sundays, while her hospital routine waited, slowed, stalled. She stood it until one morning the Bible-reading held up a Caesarean, whereupon she slammed the Bible on the floor, crying "I can't bear it! I wish I'd never seen the damned thing!" Although he "never forgave nor forgot," that ended Bible-reading in the Fearn household...