Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flayed. Silent and alone in his rear-row seat last week sat Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut while Democrats on the Senate floor excoriated his employment of Charles L. Eyanson, agent of the Connecticut Manufacturers' Association, as his tariff tutor (TIME, Oct. 7). The lobby-hunting committee brought in a statement of fact, in the Bingham-Eyanson case, without major recommendations. Declared Chairman Caraway of the Lobby Committee: "This transaction was beneath the dignity of the Senate and would tend to shake the confidence of the American people in the integrity of legislation." Democratic Senator Dill of Washington suggested...
...wife. Other women present moaned and groaned hysterically. Robust cowpunchers and ranchers bent their heads in sorrow for their friend. Oilman Doheny, crimson with rage and chagrin, shook his fist at the bench and screamed: "That damned court-." Mark Thompson, Fall attorney, went white and limp, slumped to the floor, lay there unconscious for ten minutes before physicians could revive him. Bending over him was Frank Hogan, chief defense counsel, ashy white with disappointment. Cried Lawyer Hogan: "Tell that damned jury to come back here and smile at this, too." The wife of one of the jurors had followed...
...record tells of a bedridden observer who watched the futile efforts of one of the insects to climb upon the bed from the floor. At length the bug crawled up the wall, moved out across the ceiling and dropped on its destination...
Last week preparatory labors were almost done. Preparations consisted of building at Akron the largest airship factory and dock in the world. Its floor is a vast concrete spread of 364,000 square feet (more than 8 acres), the largest single uninterrupted floor area yet built. Over this is the dock structure, a cavernous semi-paraboloid building 211 ft. high, 1,175 ft. long. From the high perspective of a flying machine it looks like a peanut or silkworm cocoon. Although the dock was not entirely covered last week, 40,000 people could congregate under the finished portion to watch...
...Armstrong has long planned to anchor his first full-size seadrome midway between Manhattan and Bermuda. Studying hydrographic charts of the region he figured that there must exist a high spot on the ocean floor about where he would like it. He asked Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to send a survey ship to check his calculations. He was right. The survey showed a little plateau just 400 miles from Manhattan and 375 miles from Bermuda, in an almost direct line. It is six miles long by four miles wide and only two miles below sea level, whereas...