Word: roof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motions indicated by their President William Green, a plain man whose career had been a model of its kind. At evening the placid delegates rejoined their wives, retired to the movies or enjoyed simple sociability in hotel rooms. A minority frequented the convention's one play spot, the roof of the Rice Hotel...
People whose daily diet is strychnine retch at Cindy Lou's syrup. Her magnolia-bud ways with men make women who get their guys through manhole methods rage. Swiftly the whole house-party gangs up on her. Then Cindy Lou hits the roof, butts a fat columnist (John Alexander) in the belly, gives the crowd a 100-stripe tongue-lashing, spoils everybody's fun, cooks everybody's goose, flashes a revolver, and winds up with as much loot in Connecticut as Sherman's men got out of Georgia...
...water struck Providence, short circuiting all power. A 300,000 cu.-ft. gas tank exploded. Short-circuited auto horns set up a doleful din. Towns up Buzzard's Bay and along the Cape Cod Canal were devastated. A steeple in East Bridgewater fell point first through the roof of its own church. At Northfield Seminary a falling chimney killed two girls, injured 20. "Old Ironsides," torn from her moorings in Boston Navy Yard, was badly battered...
...proved to be an Admirable Crichton straight out of Sir James Barrie's play. With meticulous calm he saved 23 people by shepherding them, including the Countess de Fontnouvelle (wife of the French consul-general) and her infant, into the Ottman house, signaling for help from the roof with a bed sheet. At the storm's height he reported to the house guests: "I am sure that our signal was observed, but the situation is most disturbing and perhaps I should venture outside and bring help from the mainland." He then fought his way through the storm...
...variable. Two types of tongues have been discovered: 1) dry, usually coming from the north; 2) wet, coming from the south. A large tongue may stretch for 1,500 miles across the U. S., and 20 or 30 smaller streaks may be observed in one day, forming a roof over the entire continent. Plotted on a meteorological map they resemble a mass of partly coiled snakes. Although the greater area of each tongue remains at uniform specific humidities, the extremities tend to undergo changes. At the southern ends of the dry tongues heat is lost and dry air descends from...