Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evan Speer '40 is Chairman of the affair, and assisting him on the Committee are Irving S. Michelman '39, John A. Rumsey '39, William P. Pennebaker '40, and David Henry '41. Plans for the decoration of the dance floor and other entertainments are under way, Speer said...
There lanky, seamy-faced Vice President L. Wallace Jeffery of T. N. R. P. in offices occupying one whole floor of a big lakeside building, has checked the 1.000 or so candidates standing for the 435 House seats and 32 Senate vacancies. Mr. Jeffery, assisted by Dr. Townsend's dark-haired young son Robert as secretary-treasurer, has found only 155 Congressional candidates worthy of T. N. R. P. endorsement.† About two-thirds of them are Republicans, including the three incumbents already re-elected in Maine and Senator Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye of North Dakota...
...Main reasons for the concerts' popularity are their cheapness, varied programs, unconventional atmosphere, the personality of their conductor. Highest admission charge is about $1.75, cheapest 50?. The 50?-tickets admit bearers to a large space devoid of any seats. There, an odd assortment of Londoners amble around the floor, smoke, swap opinions and amateur musical criticism, behave in general more like swing fans at a jam jag than ordinary concertgoers. On some nights the floor is so packed, the air so heavy with smoke and heat that faintings and hurried exits are common. Since the series began...
...Latin Quarter" theme of new decorations. Good floor show and music of one of Ruby Newman's orchestras. Good dinners at reasonable prices...
...sooner had the reporter entered he room than he was informed by one of the Hicks associated that he was not welcome. At a sign of protest, the three grabbed him by the shoulders and the sent of his pants, respectively, and neatly dispatched him onto the hall floor in a heap, shamming the door behind...