Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capehart recently returned from a transcontinental tour, with banquets and floor shows in 21 cities to pep up his dealers about Wurlitzer's nickel-in-the-slot music machines. Of his expensive clambake he said: "I can't afford it, but we can't beat those Democrats with firecrackers. . . . The New Deal : . . will fall of its own weight, but we must get in and pitch today and kill it before it kills...
...thick-walled little brick cell block where fractious inmates are put for "treatment." It holds nine cells, each 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, 10 ft. high. In each cell are a small sink with one spigot, a "hopper" (toilet) and six bolts in the wall for cots. Walls & floor are rough concrete, doors sheet steel, with small ventilating holes at the bottom. Three windows and several small roof outlets comprise the ventilation of the building. Across a two-foot corridor from the cells the wall is lined with steal radiators, which can provide several times the amount of radiation...
...treatment cells, bedlam raged. Tearing their clothes off, gasping for breath, the tortured men roared and screamed for hours. When guards came with breakfast the third day, they found 21 of the prisoners unconscious, four (two in each of two cells) dead on the floor-bruised, gouged, discolored, parboiled...
Among the many features of this modern building is a library of 200,000 volumes with reading rooms, administration offices and stacks. It also contains an auditorium with a seating capacity of 200, seminar rooms for small conferences; and offices for professors, consultants, and secretaries. On the top floor is a lounging room which may be used as a lunchroom as well for informal meetings...
...Loeser had walked into the London Stock Exchange, which brooks no intrusion. The Exchange was once limited to 1400 members. Now, whenever a stranger is seen on the floor, members shout "1401," throw him out. Mr. Loeser was lucky not to have been "debagged" (pants taken off). Afterwards, he said somewhat sourly: "The experience was funny...