Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Copley--"Murder on the Second Floor." The usual mystery-melodrama...
...fall down at this point would mean Harvard's loss of this much-needed building. Negotiations between the H. A. A. and the College authorities followed; it was decided to draw upon the reserve coffers of the A. A. for the construction of the plant up to the top floor. The impracticability of such action was once again brought forward and this time the Corporation voted the B. A. A. freedom to draw on its surplus for the building's completion. The total cost of construction is estimated...
...same office staff, the same cash solicitors. Their collections are pooled. Their field agents last year brought in $209,586. In return they supplied contributors with "educational bulletins" on tax and tariff matters, gave "expert" advice on fiscal affairs. Sample expenditure: $700 to Frank D. Mondell, onetime Republican floor leader of the House, now a lobbying lawyer, to urge a higher duty on peanuts before the tariff commission. The sum of $77,936.44 went to Lobbyist Arnold and his three chief assistants, one of whom, a Mrs. Darden. had a "stage name for collecting money." Lobbyist Arnold pleaded poverty...
...elaborate display was set before the Senate when John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) Senator from Mississippi, entered the chamber in an absent-minded mood. He fondled a large cloth monkey with a red tail. He wiggled a cuckoo clock so roughly that it crashed to the floor in ruins. Last week the Senate Chamber held another similar exhibition, including toy soldiers, a violin, an umbrella, a bird cage, salad bowls. Asked Senator Barkley of Kentucky: "By what authority have Kresge and Woolworth moved into this chamber?" Warrior Norris picked up a cornet, blew on it a long mocking blast...
...once arose a judicial question: What was the value of the "smell" testimony of a Senator who knows nothing about liquor from the standpoint of personal imbibation? Does experience as a chemist qualify him as an expert on alcoholic odors? It was pointed out on the Senate floor that gold paint smells like bananas but it is not bananas...