Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan's Broadway or Chicago's Randolph Street. Foreign features-Siamese dancing, marionettes from Java-will be exhibited by natives in the native fashion, not vaudevillized or adapted to U. S. taste. Mr. Geddes is going to suggest an island supper club, in which the dance floor is separated from the dining space by tiny canals. He will propose an open air cabaret which has permanent runways, like hollow walls, winding among the tables. The performers will dance and sing above. The waiters will scurry through the hollows below. The plans of a Geddes sea food restaurant show...
...student of world-wide magical history. Magician Mullholland was invisibly assisted by Dr. Shirley L. Quimby, apparatus expert, professor of physics at Columbia University. Dr. Hooker's guests were led from his dark panelled home through a small grassy courtyard, into a private chemical laboratory. On the second floor was a tiny impromptu "theatre" which seated about 20 people. The walls were lined with books, many of them on magic...
Next day the Rules Committee met, prepared to censure the undiscovered "leaky" Senator, subpoenaed Pressman Mallon. By ancient custom and courtesy, though not by rule, one representative at a time of the four great press associations?United, Associated, Universal, International?is allowed the privilege of the Senate floor. Chairman Moses of the Rules Committee, by way of punishment, ordered this privilege for the United Press suspended. Wisconsin's Senator La Follette, eager to press the issue to the maximum discomfort of Republican Conservatives, pointed out that the Senate rules granted no floor privileges to any pressmen. When Senator La Follette...
...with indignation, on the floor Senators La Follette and Johnson took up cudgels for Mallon. Senator La Follette's chief point was that the Rules Committee should question Senators about infractions of the secrecy rules, not newsmen who have taken no oath to obey those rules...
...Secretary Huntley, sent a conciliatory message to the Press Gallery inviting correspondents to meet him for a discussion of "newspaper ethics ... to swap viewpoints." Fifty newsmen signed a retort that they would not confer with him, that they preferred to hear this "thoughts on newspaper ethics" from the Senate floor where he had referred to "the so-called ethics of a so-called profession...