Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liar, a backstabber and a would-be dictator were among the various things that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was called last week when he announced to the House of Commons that his Government had recognized Franco Spain. Few predecessors had ever taken such a verbal licking on that floor...
From Paris last week came descriptions of the latest French dance craze, known as La Chamberlaine. On the dance floor a lone man with an umbrella on his arm picks out a girl with whom he would like to dance, hooks her partner's arm with the umbrella, and whirls away with the girl, leaving the umbrella on the arm of the victim. The dispossessed dancer then repeats the process. French couples enjoyed the Hitleresque fun of giving the man with the umbrella the runaround, leaving him embarrassed and puzzled...
...year-old sprout was dragged from his sleep on a cold cell floor to be prodded with the endless question: "Were you a member of a counterrevolutionary, Fascist, terroristic organization?" After nights of browbeating, the bewildered lad "confessed." The zealous agents then attempted to get him to confess that he had started recruiting for such an organization in 1935 (when he was seven years...
...Denver, Colo., three-year-old Elaine Nybord started to play with an electric batter-mixer while it was mixing batter in a bowl. As it fell to the floor, it knocked her down, caught her by the curls, yanked most of them...
...appearance for Captain Lupe Lupien, Dick Sullivan, Tread Ruml, and Fred Heckel. Lupien had a tough time with McKellar of Yale, but he did not allow the sharp-shooting Eli to work his way in for many short shots. All of his baskets came from well out in the floor. Sullivan, Ruml, and Heckel have all had important roles on the squad this year, and they all saw service against the Loefflermen...