Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LONDON--Winston Churchill, who as Minister of Colonies in 1922 signed the treaty recognizing the Irish Free State, tonight assailed Prime Minister Eamon De Valera of Ireland as a man who might "strike Britain in the back" in time of war. Churchill, attacking the Irish leader on the floor of the House of Commons, said that "dark forces of the Irish underworld tried to strike us in the back" during the World War "and there are still dark forces at work in Ireland now." In event of war, he added, Ireland might remain neutral or demand "the whole of Ireland...
...idea just come to me suddenly a couple days ago," stated Norman Hapgood '41 who in the presence of a cheering crowd of forty, accomplished the feat last night of going out of a room on the fourth floor of Thayer, walking down four flights, and up again balancing a broom on his chin, to win a bet of two and a half dollars...
...Frankie edged toward her pistol she warned him: "You're trying to get me hurt, and I don't want me to hurt you. The best place for you to go is your mother." When Britt failed to take the hint, she shot him. Groaning on the floor, he gasped: "Oh, you have me." Frankie couldn't believe it. "You're just wanting to get up onto me to cut me," she exclaimed. But she was wrong; he was done...
...moving a recreation of a childhood and its ending as I have ever read." Said Short-Story Anthologist Edward J. O'Brien: "The art form that Boccaccio invented is born again full-blown in America at last." Said Novelist Dan Wickenden: "We have been rolling about on the floor over The Flying Yorkshireman...
Less excitable readers found it easy to keep off the floor, catalogued The Flying Yorkshireman as consisting of: 1) a fantasy by Eric Knight about a man who discovered he could fly, amusing but stretched thin; 2) a sentimental story by Helen Hull about a dentist's wife who wins a $10,000 novel contest; 3) a realistic report on New Year's Eve in a flop house, by Albert Maltz; 4) a whimsy about a girl whose poetic sprightliness enchants a middle-aged doctor, by 24-year-old Rachel Maddux; 5) a sentimental reminiscence of childhood...