Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...partner after our burlesque number we achieve an added effect by my flying exits into the wings. It the stage manager has had an attack of absent mindedness and is conspicuous by his being away, I either land up against the wall or in a heap on the floor...
...Again in this same number 'I have to leap from the floor onto a table and off about ten times in succession. If one is not terribly careful, it is annoyingly easy to scrape one's leg in making the flight...
...American Building at Washington there now hangs no photograph of William Jennings Bryan. But entering the building on the 17th St. side, going up to the second floor, in the Sanitary Bureau room on the right, behind the door, visitors can view Mr. Bryan, painted in oils...
...instance, she should not lift him down when she has finished, but should turn him over onto his little tummy, slide him gently backward until his legs hang over the edge of the bed and continue to draw him gently downward until his feet touch the floor. Then she can assist him to drop to hands and knees, and let him creep away for a short distance...
Because Stock Broker M. Boyd Zinman made money as the result of a confidential conversation that he happened to overhear on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, the governors of the Exchange last week suspended him from trading there for one year. His conduct and proceedings were "inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade," they said...