Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have become great actors, such as Mr. J. Barrymore, but acting seems to be more a woman's profession. It is more a part of us than it is with men. But to be a good actor one must have more than mere ability. A willingness to sweep the floor, if such is necessary, the ability to go night after night without sleep, and above all patience, all are requisites to success. Why, I could make every one of my costumes right now if I had to, and I did not learn that art after I had advanced, but when...
Last week, the House Committee on elections voted to report the resolution promptly and favorably this time instead of pouching it. But the House was still static. Republican Floor Leader Tilson said: "There is little interest in the House." Speaker Longworth said he could observe "very little sentiment" for the Amendment. Chairman White of the Committee on Elections said the Amendment would surely pass the House if ever it could reach a vote...
...frequency alternator. To buy that invention and thus to prevent the British Marconi Co. from acquiring it, the Radio Corporation of America was created. He is R. C. A.'s chief consulting engineer. One of the receiving sets used last week stood in the corner of a ground floor room in his home at Schenectady. He is 50 years old, has 150 patents to his credit...
Professor Rock writes from Yunnanfu that after going through a "terrific typhoon for two and a half days with a wind velocity of 130 miles per hour and the barometer at 27.90, during which my bed was torn out of the floor and turned over while I was in it," he finally reached Japan...
Score-Harvard Freshman 23; St. John's Academy 31. Goals from floor--Driscoll 5, Szeszjowski, Johnson 3, Farrell 3, Dutton 3, Deverice 3, Foshay. Goals from fouls--Machler 2, Szeszwoski 2. Rex, Dutton, Farrell, Deverice. Referee--Cragen. Time--10 minute quarters...