Word: floor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when she is not on tour, she still roller-skates daily in Manhattan's Central Park. Even while she is busy preparing her part of the program for the Goethe Bicentennial celebration at Aspen, Colo, next month, she "keeps three kitchens going"-one at her sunlit 16th floor studio in the "heaven of Carnegie Hall," one in the nine-room house she runs as the wife of Dr. Shelby Rooks, Presbyterian minister, and one on their York River, Virginia farm, which, she says, "is just a place to isolate yourself -a few boats on the river, a few bunnies...
...ball in his honor, the President chatted with the guests (who paid $10 a head), but declined to test the dance floor. "I'm a Baptist, you know," Harry Truman explained, "but not a lightfoot one, so I didn't learn to dance." Forty minutes later, the President was ready to leave; the next day would be a big one. ". . . Come out to the stadium tomorrow," Baptist Truman suggested, "and I'll tell you something good for your souls...
...Senate floor tempers were better restrained, although the big issue last week was one to strike fire and doubtless would before the argument was over. The Senate had squared off for the showdown debate on repeal of the Taft-Hartley...
Labor faced bleak, uncertain months before the 1950 elections.* The leaders did not smother criticism from the delegates; they simply prevented any resolution from reaching the floor which could not command a resounding vote in favor. Fiery Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan did not denounce the opponents of full-speed nationalization. He seemed to have moved into the moderate camp of House Leader Herbert Morrison. What Bevan and Morrison asked the delegates for, and got, was a mandate to adjust the speed of nationalization to the economic and political weather ahead...
...drinking champagne out of ashtrays and washing his face in film developer. When Burra's health forced him to quit school and moderate his prankish ways, he retired to his parents' house in Rye, on England's South Coast, made a studio of his old top-floor nursery and settled down to work while gradually transforming the place into a fluttery nest of picture postcards, tabloid shock photos, scraps of comic strips and reproductions of such artists as Goya, George Grosz and Gustave Dore...