Word: roof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cause of this magisterial to do had come two days before when at Pathe Co.'s Manhattan film studio a surge of flame swashed across the wooden roof, turned the barnlike building into a man broiler. Within a half-hour ten crushed, charred bodies, including four pretty girls, were laid out on the street below a blackened sign: PATHE TALKING COMEDIES MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD LAUGH...
...fountains and spraying plants of fire in the narrow streets, shaking the theatre where a chorus dances and the bar rooms and restaurants where people are eating and drinking. A flower-woman runs out to the corner to see the danger better and a nobleman goes up to his roof for the same purpose. The raid in the fog, brilliantly photographed, is the justification of an unconvincing anecdote about a British aviator (John Garrick) and a waitress (Helen Chandler) in a camp canteen. Best shot: crowds in Whitechapel watching the fight...
...novel feature of the new Dartmouth indoor hockey rink, under construction at the present time, is the lettering "Dartmouth College" on the roof, to be a lofty guide for aeroplanes. The letters are to be about 20 feet in height and to extend the whole length of the building...
Although the roof has been completed, the rest of the structure will not be ready for another month. The dedication of this new rink is to take place on January 8, during the annual Winter Carnival, when the Crimson hockey team faces off against the Indians...
...Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi), famed Venetian jail so called because it was in the garret of the Ducal Palace, whose roof was covered with sheets of lead. Eventually he escaped, with the help of a fellow-prisoner, by cutting a hole in the roof, then clambering down and into a window of the palace. He wandered to Paris, London, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Barcelona, always getting in trouble sooner or later over...