Word: roof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With the roof garlanded with strings of Japanese lanterns and the Sanctum an oasis of lights and colors, the CRIMSON will be one of the resorts to which Seniors and their families will turn their steps after the last of the confetti has been thrown in the Stadium this afternoon. The CRIMSON spread will begin at 5.30 o'clock, immediately after the afternoon celebration, but, unlike the greater number of other spreads, it will continue until midnight...
...school chiefly because of Father Frederick H. Sill, who is headmaster, religious guide, crew coach, pater familias. He is an Episcopalian and so are most of his boys, but he does not proselyte. If the school has a sanctum, it is Father Sill's study with low, slanting roof, often-disturbed shelves of books, a littered desk and several leather chairs. The conversations of this room are the unwritten and authentic chronicle of Kent. Many-times-famed have been the crews of Kent...
...Matea, Calif., a milk wagon horse, startled, reared into the air, came down through the roof of a passing sedan, injuring five motorists; was shot dead...
Near England, Ark., an airplane observer saw a shirt being flapped from a hole in the roof of a cotton gin. Daily for ten days the plane returned, "bombing" the hole accurately with supplies which saved the refugee's lives. ... A corps of flyers bravely patrolled a 400-mile stretch south of Memphis, in land planes. If forced down certain drowning awaited them. No respecter of greatness, the flood sadly hampered the glory-cruise of William Hale Thompson, Chicago mayor, who last week started down the Mississippi from Cairo, accompanied by a large party on the river steamers Cincinnati...
...Rubbernecks and idlers were offered rusty nails at $1 apiece, from the White House roof, now being repaired, before the police stopped the workman who was selling them...