Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neck of the first Negro, Isaac Howard, he said: ''Tell others of my kind never to attack none who don't belong to them. I believe in God." Then he began to sing "The Other Shore." The sheriff sprang the trap. Isaac Howard plunged through the floor, his song ended. Said the sheriff: "That bastard won't bother you any more." Said Father Collins, "Hell no!" In the hall below someone said: 'That's Isaac Howard." Said another: "You mean that was Isaac Howard." The crowd laughed. Fifteen minutes later the doctor with...
...named Andrew Kirwan, collector of knives, daggers and swords, got into an argument about religion with a man named Gilliam Sessoms in the smoking room of the S. S. President Garfield as the Round-the-World Dollar liner neared New York. Shortly afterwards Gilliam Sessoms was found on the floor stabbed in the shoulder and stomach. Three days after the vessel docked in Jersey City he died. Arrested by Federal agents on the charge of murder on the high seas, Andrew Kirwan refused to identify himself...
...promise to give Jews citizenship. Then he agrees to lend them all the Rothschild money. On the morning of Waterloo Rothschild is in a bad way. There is a panic on the London stock exchange. If the market breaks completely. Rothschild will be bankrupt. He pops on to the floor, places in his buttonhole a flower given him by Mrs. Rothschild (Mrs. Arliss) and orders his agents to buy. Presently, there arrives from the battlefield a message that Napoleon has lost. When next seen. Nathan Rothschild is at court with his wife, wondering on which knee to kneel while being...
Complete and gleaming on the floor of the Sikorsky plant in Bridgeport, Conn. last week stood the biggest passenger airplane ever built...
Hotel Bradford, Cascades--$30.40. 40.* $1.25 minimum: No cover weekdays. Otherwise $.50. Joe Rines' orchestra. Good music, rather a ha-cha atmosphere, amusing floor show. One of the best for a hilarious evening. Better dress...