Word: housetops
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...airplane. A square house piles up air pressure on the windward side, creates a vacuum on the leeward side, thus sucking the heat out. The streamlined house slides the wind off, fills the leeward vacuum space, saves heat, requires less resistance to wind stress. A cone on the housetop lets in air which settles evenly down in a slow draft...
...Batak. Throughout Central Europe this superstition prevails: that the house upon which a stork rests is bound to be a happy home. Fearful of Batak's wrath should they shoot the stork, policemen chased it up & down the streets. When they drew near, it flapped quickly to a housetop. Reserves were called; at latest reports last week the entire gendarmery of Batak was still stork chasing...
Gustav Cardinal Piffl, was en route sedately down the Ringstrasse in Vienna, last fortnight, when a newspaper blew from a housetop and enveloped suddenly the head of His Eminence...
...encompass in a day's ride, - and I promise you there the respect due a stranger to our shores, to your attainments, your industry, and your large, generous and tranquil nature. Or should you decide to return here, and not bear further abuse, come to my housetop and abide with me, where you will be welcomed and loved as a brother. And bear this in mind my dear boy: The more you are abused the more welcome you will be. For I remember how kind your country was to me, and at your age I had not done one-tenth...