Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long before the noon hour of meeting, members congregated on the House floor to talk, to listen, to laugh, to mill around, to exude cordiality, to slap backs, to wring friendly hands, to encircle familiar shoulders. Two prime conversational topics predominated...
Little reception knots formed about the House floor. Veterans, committee chairmen, held court. The four women members, all in black, greeted their many admirers. New York's Snell (Rules Committee) stood behind his aisle table, frowning, sharpening a pencil with a blunt watch chain knife. Leader Tilson beamed at his flock and rearranged neatly typed resolutions on blue paper. The galleries, splotched with color, were long ago overflowing. Mrs. Alice Longworth, the Speaker's wife, was there, incognito, because she failed to remove her brown hat and reveal her gleaming hair...
...guilty party. The search then started off in earnest, the duet becoming a sextet almost coincidentally. To the consternation of some and the amusement of all--excepting, of course, the management--the six alarm clocks were finally found tied to the hatracks under six seats on the main floor of the theater...
...exhibitions in the University which is known to few students is the collection of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society on the third floor of the Baker Library of the Business School...
Harrison Williams was the man who entertained the Prince of Wales on and around Long Island and showed him Wall Street. Mr. Williams has a volcano named after him in the Galapagos, whither he helped finance the expedition of William Beebe. Mr. Williams, too, has studied the ocean floor from his fine yacht Warrior, recently sold to George Whelan...