Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elephant. When the same orchestra played outside the house of a twelve-year-old elephant named Poetre, she listened with polite and melancholy attention. As the wild oboes wailed, she bent her huge head in self-conscious sorrow. When the brass horns shouted, she flapped the floor with a map of Africa, her right ear. For violins and cellos, ehe rolled her small bright eye. Then, when the crazy, jazzy saxophone blew a blue note, Poetre filled the geyser-ish trumpet of her nose with air and water, blew out a moan more liquid than the trombone...
Near Seattle, Wash., one Mrs. M. E. Stein was cooking fish. Hearing a commotion outside, she left her kitchen, left the fish frying over the fire and a great jug of spicy soup standing on the floor. When she returned to the kitchen, she first went to "turn" the fish; then she looked at her soup tureen. She stared at her soup tureen; over the edge of it was hanging a grey, silky brush. When Mrs. Stein pulled this brush, she found that it was attached to an animal. From her soup she extracted the pet weasel...
...Loan Library will give one law books tomorrow at 9 o'clock in the library on the third floor of the Phillips Brooks House...
During the morning he had conference with Republican Floor Leaders of the Senate ( Charles Curtis of Kansas) and of the House (John Q. Tilson of Connecticut). Both advised against an extra session of Congress. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, occupied most of the President's afternoon...
...swapped securities and stories and breathed the fresh air from New York Harbor. When it was bad they met in nearby coffee taverns. By 1817 public participation in corporate enterprises had grown to the point where the brokers found it expedient to rent the front room on the second floor of the house of one George F. Vaupell at No. 40 Wall St. It cost $200 but this included fire, chairs and ordering the room when necessary...