Word: flooring
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...stumped for the regular ticket in 1940, they used to shout "Give us some of them words, Paul." But there were a few hecklers left. Old Ed Kelly, who was so fascinated by Douglas' oratory that he left standing orders to be notified whenever Douglas took the floor, promptly shut the hecklers up. Said Ed: "Any man who is willing to go and fight for his country at Paul Douglas' age can talk as long as he wants...
...Rescue. Before fire trucks sirened to the scene from two miles away, the fire had shot from a first-floor room up a dumb waiter, was licking through all three floors. In rows of flame-lit windows, terrorstricken women shrieked and pounded at wire mesh and steel bars which imprisoned them in cell-like rooms; before the firemen had arrived many had fallen silent and disappeared in the flames. Mrs. Anna Neal, a 55-year-old nurse on duty in the ward, led some of her patients into the night, rushed back into the fire to rescue more...
Balancing gingerly on slippery, icesheathed ladders, firemen hacked with axes at the stubborn screens and bars, taking costly long minutes. Finally they clambered inside. They found one woman, two hours after the fire had started, seated calmly on her third-floor bed; her nightgown was partially coated with ice and she was surrounded by fallen debris. "Are you all right?" a fireman asked. "I think so," she said. Taking her by the hand, he led her to a ladder at an open window. "Some of them were like animals who had something new happening to them and didn...
Dominguín returned to Spain. The duke ordered that Angelita be watched closely during the day, locked in a third-floor room every night. At dawn one morning, Angelita tied bedsheets together and slid to freedom. A few minutes later, she was in Dominguín's arms...
...door-to-door salesman in 1913. He was sales vice president when he quit in 1929 in the hope of working into the ownership of some likely business. He picked the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, but after two years there, took to the brush again. He rented the first floor of an old tobacco shed in Westfield, Mass., founded Stanley Home Products, and with six associates sold $72,000 worth of polishes and brushes the first year...