Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Copley--"Murder on the Second Floor". First time in Boston...
...building, highly organized his flock, even down to an emergency blood transfusion corps. When he left Muncie, his church refused his resignation, made him pastor emeritus. His last call there was upon an indicted bootlegger. He played with the 'legger's children on the floor, made another friend...
Quickly followed the identification of Cassidy as the "Man in the Green Hat"? 'legger who long has specialized in trade around the Capitol. Three years ago he was going his rounds in the House Office Building when his liquor-laden brief case fell to the stone floor. Amid fumes of alcohol, he fled to the street. His only identification then was his bright green hat. When arrested last week he wore a hat of sober grey...
...inside of an American home. . . . All I have been able to see in New York, Washington. Philadelphia, Buffalo and Niagara Falls is the outside of homes. . . . What is the atmosphere of an American home? How do parents and children get on? What attitude has a boy on the fifth floor of an apartment building toward his small sister lying in her crib by the window? How much is the care of these children left to nursemaids...
Last week in Manhattan, a jolly little round-faced man walked into the lobby of a small, sooty-red downtown office building, No. 13 Astor Place, and told the elevator boy that he wanted to get off at the tenth floor. Smiling, happy he went down a long, dim hall, entered a little office filled with the stinging smell of turpentine which painters had finished swabbing only the night before. He noticed and was pleased with a vase of roses?"from the Executive Staff"?on a shiny new desk. He sat down at the desk. Officials swarmed...