Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McKellar & Boss Ed Crump of Memphis. Coercion of WPAsters, ballot-box stuffing, martial law, shootings, sluggings, kidnappings and general mayhem were anticipated when Chairman Sheppard of the Committee rushed extra agents into Tennessee and announced that whoever won this Senate race would probably have his seat challenged on the floor of the Senate...
Pushing the accelerator down to the floor, he sped to the nearest drugstore, tried artificial respiration for ten minutes. The baby began to turn blue. The druggist shook his head. "He's dead," said he. But the agonized father would not give up hope. He dashed 14 miles to Wheeling, ran into the hospital, gave the baby to Dr. Edward L. Larson. Dr. Larson put Robert into a hot bath, massaged his heart, tried artificial respiration, and finally adrenalin to constrict the small blood vessels and send a rush of necessary blood to the heart. In half an hour...
...first by leaving the door of his tawny-paneled office open to anyone who wanted to see him-a change from the days when Richard Whitney sat there in regal isolation. He irked crusty conservatives by letting photographers attend his first board meeting and also take pictures on the floor during trading hours. But chiefly he astonishes his broker associates by eating at the Automat, living at the Yale Club, spurning an automobile as too expensive, preferring to study or sit in a theatre balcony to splurging at some swank Long Island resort...
...recently returned to Johore from a holiday in Sumatra, he had with him and seemed intent on marrying a pert number, Lydia Cecily Hill, an ex-cabaret performer who first caught His Highness' eye four years ago in London when she was legging in the Grosvenor House floor show...
...waited (see cut). Nightfall meant the complication of flash bulbs for photographers, a more lurid scene for excited spectators who bought binoculars and made bets on whether Warde would jump. Most spectacular shots were caught by Associated Press Cameraman Harold Harris (Warde, arms akimbo, plummeting past the sixth floor of the hotel), and Acme Cameraman Charles Haacker (Warde toppling from the hotel marquee, police scurrying...