Word: second-floor
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...Rear Window, Director Hitchcock plants his camera on the esthetic handkerchief of a second-floor back room in Greenwich Village, to which a photographer (James Stewart )for one of the big picture magazines is confined with a broken leg. Inside the room the camera moves freely, but whenever it looks out the rear window, it is permitted to see only what the hero...
...Vietnamese Prime Minister emerged from his drab Paris hotel one day last week, and took the subway across town. At the Palais d'Orsay he went up to his new government offices (a second-floor hotel room), where he started dictating memoranda to his executive' secretary (a part-time animated-cartoon artist). All day the Prime Minister greeted diplomats, newspapermen and Vietnamese well-wishers in courtly turmoil, now and then lapsing into deep meditation and silence...
Roses, gladioli and snapdragons adorned his bedside table in bright profusion as Dr. Hugh Hamilton, one of Kansas City's leading obstetricians, spent his 49th birthday last week in the St. Joseph Hospital, where he had practiced for many years. The second-floor staff brought in a cake with pink icing. But it was not a happy occasion, for outside his room stood police guards on around-the-clock duty, turning away visitors. The day before, Dr. Hamilton had been charged in a warrant with trying to poison his wife; it was the latest of the many troubles that...
...second-floor apartment, the police found Albizu, clad in blue pajamas, his legs wrapped in wet towels (he is under the impression that the U.S. is bombarding them with death rays), cowering on the floor with two women friends...
...which was now augmented by Presidential Chief of Staff Sherman Adams and others. While the conferees in the Cabinet Room sweated over their draft, President Eisenhower was practicing pitch shots on the nearby White House lawn. When Meeting No. 6 had finished its labors, it found Ike in his second-floor study and brought him the statement. The President strengthened the language in one spot, gave it his "100% approval...