Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Jones's unhappiness over the Five & Ten Act was increased last week when New York's volunteer committee of lawyers to defend Five & Ten victims unearthed and republished a statement made by Senator Jones in 1921 on the Senate floor. He had said...
Wheeler−"devotes himself wholly to pot-shooting. ... In a floor fight he is a total loss...
...Manhattan, a patrolman found one John Sawyer, 65, lying face down upon the floor of his basement apartment, dead from a fall or foul play; around the corpse, unblinking, motionless, sat six cats...
Some years back, when George Leon Loft, son of George W. Loft, famed "penny-a-pound-profit" candyman, was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, he appeared on the trading floor in a smart new spring suit. Knowing his reputation for being ready to buy or sell anything, friends of Mr. Loft surrounded him and began to auction off the suit. When the price reached $100, George said "sold." Into a telephone booth he stepped, removed the suit, tossed it out to the purchaser, remained in seclusion until another suit was brought from his home...
...irresistible is the Mona Lisa, it happened again last week, when an unframed Mona Lisa by Mrs. Elizabeth Tinker Elmore, New York copyist, was stolen from the fourth floor parlors of the public library in Birmingham...