Word: roof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Performance. Obviously a vast sum was spent on the Metropolitan's Sadko. The opera demands elaborate, fantastic pictures and, in most instances, Russian Designer Serge Sovdeikine realized them. Particularly striking was the banqueting scene where bearded, bright-coated merchants sat bibbing under a queerly-angled, vivid roof; the scene on the quay where gabbling townspeople watched the crack-brained Sadko fishing for his fortune; the bottom of the sea with its fish-folk orgy. Of the performers, Tenor Edward Johnson as Sadko sang sternly to the merchants, but beguilingly to the sea princess. Many in the audience reflected that...
...judge, grim-lipped Sir Horace Edmund Avory, pale and ascetic under his huge wig, was unimpressed. Addressing all four defendants he gazed fixedly at Clarence Hatry, the man who once owned the largest yacht and some of the fastest horses in Britain, whose Mayfair house contained not only a roof-garden swimming pool but also a subcellar bar and taproom labeled "Ye Old Stanhope Arms-Free House...
Rowing machines will be hung up under the roof to provide space for these lockers and the 175 which have been brought over from the Weld boathouse, while two men will be on duty 24 hours a day stoking the fires to provide enough hot water to accommodate about 1400 men daily when crew and baseball are in full swing...
...spacious, quiet city, Washington is ideally suited to the winter diversions of starlings, which chiefly include chaffering, feeding, dropping, breeding. Nesting in eaves and sycamore trees along Pennsylvania Avenue, crowding the gutters of the White House roof, congregating on the cornices of the Capitol, they made the scene monotonous. So many roosted and fluttered among the lights of the Fox Theatre that patrons found it difficult to read the names of cinema players there exhibited...
...railroad station, poring over maps to check landmarks with recorded rivers and railroads, these were recent methods of town identification for lost pilots. Then the Guggenheim Fund stepped in and asked towns, corporations and individuals (notably postmasters) to label their localities. More than 8,000 places now have proper roof markings, the Fund reported last week. Foremost among the town labelers were oil companies, who welcome customers from above or below...