Word: porch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night he was alone. Sometime in the hours of darkness, tongues of flames (perhaps from the gasoline lamp) lapped the cottage and consumed it. In the morning a man, coming to rent land, found the charred skeleton of a building, and upon what had been a sleeping porch, beside what had been a cot, a body...
Henry Ford, sitting in his shirtsleeves on the porch of his Wayside Inn at Sudbury, Mass., heard a crash as three automobiles and a bus collided, burst into flames. He ran to the wreck, helped extract two men, a boy and three other persons badly burned...
Last week Charles Stevens, U. S. dry agent, set out with friends to raid the farm of Tom Chandler, 43, north of Poteet, Tex. The farmer, sitting on his front porch, rose, picked up a gun. ''We're federal officers and you're under arrest," called Agent Stevens. Leveling his rifle at the farmer, Stevens started to rush him, tripped over a sand rut, pulled the trigger, shot the farmer through the heart, dead. Stevens had no search warrant. His raid netted a still, 19 barrels of mash, 28 gallons of whiskey. He was held...
Matheson. A bright sun was shining across Biscayne Bay in Florida one day last February as William John Matheson, retired chemical tycoon, sat on his Coconut Grove porch and watched one of his white high-sided launches return with indignant house guests from Key Biscayne six miles away. Close behind came a black speed launch in charge of Coast Guardsmen. A rough sea was running. Spray curtains had been in place. The guardsmen had fired five rifle shots at the Matheson boat to stop...
...Doherty through a nearly fatal arthritis illness. An Eames daughter, 18, is being schooled in Spain. Last week, in Atlantic City, N. J., the Dohertys planned a return to Manhattan. In the luxurious Doherty penthouse apartment, the Doherty bed, at punch of button, moves on rails to a sun porch overlooking the harbor...