Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never a P-D legman, ireful Editor Coghlan often wanders down from the eighth to the third (city room) floor to wrangle happily with reporters. He takes a boisterous but effective part in the periodic poker games of the "Twelfth Street Country Club," a group of P-D oldtimers. When he built his present house in the Ladue district he asked his friends if they thought he was getting too near a creek. They said he was. He built there anyway. The creek made him mad, too-came right into his cellar...
...Field Museum of Natural History last week exhibited an extraordinary collection of objects: a stony meteorite with a charred black surface, about the size of a military hand grenade and weighing four pounds; part of a garage roof; the steel turret top of an automobile; an automobile cushion and floor board. These things were acquired for the Museum, at a price which its officials last week refused to reveal, by Ben Hur Wilson, amateur astronomer of Joliet, Ill. They originally belonged to Edward McCain, resident of the small Illinois mining town of Benld...
Agent Wilson's report in Science: "This meteorite penetrated the roof of a frame garage and the top of a Pontiac coupe therein, making a neat hole in the cushion of the car to the right of the driver's seat. It also broke the floor board beneath the seat, and made a slight dent in the car's muffler. The meteorite itself, however, did not hit the ground, as it had become so entangled in the springs of the cushion that it was snapped back up into the cushion by the recoil of the springs...
Skip's broadcast will be presented over station WNAC and will originate from a vantage point on the balcony of the basketball gymnasium high above the playing floor. Although the Yale game here was broadcasted two years ago, this inaugurates the first series of consecutive broadcasts of the Crimson hoop contests...
...Topper follow his wife to the French Riviera. There, appearing and disappearing with clocklike regularity, she plays tricks with Topper's headgear (see cut), cheats at roulette, removes a pair of bathing trunks from Mrs. Topper's gigolo, and in a climactic scene disappears from a ballroom floor, leaving Topper to dance a sudden solo...