Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expert is this Mr. Malaprop that for years the press room has designated one man to keep up-to-date a compendium of McSheehyisms. Culled at random, we offer (all of these delivered from the floor in public meetings of the Board of Supervisors...
...various times he has played a ukulele, guitar, saxophone. The golf-bug has bitten him. Nothing is more fun for him than to roar out a lusty song (favorite: My Name Is Jon Jonson, I Come From Wisconsin), especially at formal dinners. At parties he sits on the floor if he can. When he drinks, it is not much; when he smokes, it is a Hatamen cigaret-cheap brand the coolies...
...Embassy in China now does business at three stands. The fancy establishment is at Peking, the working one at Chungking, the routine one at Shanghai. When the Embassy set up offices in Chungking last year, it was housed on the top floor of a U. S. Navy canteen, and the staff had to use packing cases for desks and sit on bamboo chairs...
Last week, in the grandiose splendors of the Library of Congress, two attendants on the second-floor gallery carefully wrestled a 17-inch square bronze frame into a metal stand. One of wrathful King John's four copies, brown and dim with age, its Latin screed legible only to the learned, now rested safe in Washington, capital of a nation two centuries undiscovered when the barons camped at Runnymede...
...clock struck twelve one night last week in Manhattan's statue-strewn Academy of Medicine, a handful of doctors paced the marble floor as nervously as any expectant fathers. They were awaiting results of the vote for the new officers of the New York County Medical Society. Never before in the Society's history had candidates campaigned on two opposing platforms. The baby had always been a boy. But this time nobody could be quite sure, for in last week's election there were two tickets: Progressive and Conservative. Unprecedented had been the labor pains; incalculable...