Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lives at the Washington Hotel, keeps no motor, rides the street cars. He takes no physical exercise, does not "give a damn" for society, dancing, cards. Chief conversational topics: the glories of the Old South, keeping down the "nigger." He calls spades spades and has referred, on the Senate floor, to water closets, the smell of Negroes, giving Negroes hot baths, etc., etc. He has called President Hoover a "Mussolini" and the Civil Service "the most damnable, iniquitous system ever perpetrated." Last fortnight he plumped out brazenly for the "spoils system" of party patronage (TIME, June His votes are highly...
...experiment came early in a session one day last week. Barely a dozen Senators were on the floor when the Cotton nomination was publicly confirmed without roll-call or debate. Four hours later Montana's Senator Wheeler rushed upon the floor, made loud complaint, had the Cotton confirmation revoked, the nomination reconsidered. Sly Republican Leader Watson's comment: "This is the first fruit of open executive sessions...
During the past year, while temporary improvements were being made at the Colonial Club, two rooms on the second floor of the Union were equipped especially for the use of Faculty members and Cambridge members of the Colonial Club. Mea's have been served here during the past year regularly and a special library and common room has been kept up for the benefit of members...
...gloomy though the situation appeared at the close of last week, the market opened this week not with a further decline but with a frenzied rally. Wild was the excitement in Chicago's wheat pit. Opening prices showed variations of five points at different parts of the floor. Trapped shorts, feverishly covering, were shooting prices up at the rate of a cent between trades. At the close of the day, the market had staged a $300,000,000 advance, registered net gains of some 5½ to 5⅞ points. In one day almost one-third of the three...
...gear shift is a handgrip extending from the cowl instead of a lever from the floor...