Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reverberations of discontent with the facilities in the press box at the Union have been heard throughout the Yard. Those who have to occupy this balcony perched high over the main floor have felt for a considerable time that the conditions would not bear comparison with those obtaining in the press boxes of the Yale Bowl or the Palmer Stadium. Anyone who has had occasion to use these facilities even once will agree that the ventilation and visibility is far below that in other similar structures...
What the Hon. Mr. Curtis undoubtedly did discuss with the Hon. Mr. Dawes was: who shall succeed Senator Curtis as Republican floor-leader...
...hawk last week perched on the balcony outside the Van Sweringen brothers' private suite on the 34th floor of their high Cleveland Terminal Tower Building. The hawk twisted his head and coldly looked far down at the pigeons strutting, the sparrows hopping on Cleveland's Public Square. They pecked away at crumbs, peanuts, popcorn. The hawk turned his head away. He darted it down at what one of his claws held, a strange bird killed at the tower while migrating southward for winter...
...Ledbetter Lee, mercurial informator, pronounces Wells "delightful, and his good-natured banter and satire a marvel of fine conversation." Versatile extremes, such as Kipps and The Time Machine, Floor Games for Children and The Undying Fire, mark his tremendous output of some fifty volumes aside from articles and pamphlets...
...dressing-room in the old Biograph studio. Lillian Gish had left Massillon, Ohio, to go on the stage with her sister Dorothy. As a fairy in The Good Little Devil she was lifted across the stage by a wire which broke one night and dropped her on the floor. She burst into tears, later rewarded with a salary which gave each trembling drop the literal value of a pearl...