Word: roof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democracy." For dinner and the night he went to the home of Publisher Edward H. Butler of the Buffalo Evening News. Next morning he attested his eligibility for high place by revealing that he had sat up until 2 a. m. reading a detective story, The House on the Roof by Mignon Eberhart...
...Bakunin battalion made up entirely of dockworkers from Barcelona, broke into Huesca at nine in the morning, but was checked for four hours by 26 machine-guns installed on a church roof and belfry, which vomited livid death into the front ranks of the Popular Frontists as they entered the main square. Shortly after noon two Anarchists, Amadeo Salvan and Fernández Ubarri, loaded themselves with sacks of dynamite weighing 40 lbs. each, and made a dash for the church, each with a split fuse held in one hand and a lighted cigaret in the other. Fernandez Ubarri...
...many respects the Union, situated on Quiney Street just outside of the Yard, is the social center of first-year life. Under one roof are the dining hall, common rooms, game rooms, and two libraries, one containing a fine collection of books for general reading, the other books required in History 1 and Government 1, two of the larger Freshman courses. It is in the Union that most of the social events of the Freshman year take place: tea dances after one or more of the football games in the fall, smokers, with vaudeville or other entertainment, the Freshman Jubilee...
...that moment the barn began to roll over & over like a barrel. Racing and climbing, he managed to keep on top of it as it spun in the flood. It struck a house, was smashed to pieces. He leaped at the moment it struck, landed on the roof of the dwelling. Simultaneously its walls caved in. Victor clambered up the collapsing roof, was being submerged when another house boiled up in the flood and he clung to its eaves. He lost his grip and fell, but landed on a part of the roof of the barn, went spinning toward destruction...
...only way to make the publicly visible part of the Coronation any shorter would be to cut from Buckingham Palace straight across the park to Westminster Abbey. Seat prices along the official route promptly soared last week to as much as $200 for a small chair on a precarious roof ledge. In a patriotic effort not to profiteer, one London firm offered armchair seats in its shop windows for only $150 each, including sandwiches and coffee. In Paris last week Edward VIII's coming Coronation inspired famed Style Creator Schiaparelli to bring out an autumn collection featuring crown-shaped...