Word: second-floor
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...Post, the second-floor city room exploded with war whoops and cheers when Editor William Hornby, 57, gave his staff the news. Said one reporter: "The alternatives were so dismal: a businessman or a bunch of bankers. They might have turned us into an office building." Exclaimed one of his colleagues: "Now we can really start newspapering again...
...says Stutz, "but it doesn't." Customers there receive close but not suffocating attention from modish salespeople as they buy pheasant feather necklaces for $270 or silvery snakeskin-covered appointment books for $150. Actress Cicely Tyson, a regular customer, reportedly buys all her furs from Bendel's second-floor salon; and two years ago, former Beatle John Lennon grabbed up $10,000 worth of Christmas goodies for friends at the store's E. A.T. delicacy shop...
...Casino in Stateline, Nev., about 5:30 a.m. one day last week. Out climbed two men in white coveralls who unloaded a gray, steel crate, with a small box on top, shrouded in plastic that was stamped IBM. The men carefully made their delivery to the casino's second-floor executive offices and departed...
...remember the day in June 1930," Esther E. Osgood '30 writes in her class reunion book, "When I threw away my old torn green and black bathrobe (which had seen me through senior year and generals), tossed all my college notes into Whitman Hall's second-floor trash barrel, and looked forward to the rest of my life." But the outside world was anything but promising then. The stock market had crashed the previous fall, and Herbert Hoover--still in the Oval Office--was formulating the radical Depression plan suggested by his assessment that "nobody in this country is starving...
...guests had departed and Tarnower was in his second-floor bedroom. Two hours later, shots rang out. While Housekeeper-Cook Suzanne van der Vreken phoned the police, her husband raced upstairs. He found Tarnower, clad in beige pajamas, lying between twin beds and dying from four bullet wounds. Van der Vreken rushed to the window and glimpsed a blue 1973 Chrysler sedan in the driveway...