Word: roof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Astor and their related M. P.'s (a brother, son, son-in-law, brother-in-law, cousin). Only seven months ago the National Government landslide elected Hon. William ("Bill") Waldorf Astor, chipper young heir of Viscount Astor. During the campaign Hon. Bill would pop up through the sliding roof of his little sedan, harangue constituents, then pop down and off to the next gathering. He scored an outstanding win from a previously strong Labor candidate. Last week potent Clan Astor was overjoyed when Hon. Bill was picked by Sir Samuel Hoare to be Parliamentary Private Secretary to the First...
Cora Walles bobbed up at a blazing window, crumpled in a hail of machine-gun bullets. Moment later the roof collapsed and William Walles ran squealing to the porch. A burst of bullets toppled him back into the fire...
...Italy's boot it was 9:30 p. m. Pulsing nerve centre of all this excitement was the huge square of the Piazza Venezia in Rome. Thousands and thousands of eyes in the square were riveted on the buff-colored palace of Benito Mussolini. All along the roof torches flickered in the night air. On the second floor the huge windows were flung wide. The crowd in the square could look directly into the vast frescoed office of Il Duce, lighted up like a stage setting. Round the edge of the crowd the flash bulbs of photographers flickered like...
...last week the electors met in Madrid's El Retire Park under the scorching glass roof of the Crystal Palace. With 30 Monarchists abstaining and 115 Catholics casting blank ballots, they overwhelmingly elected Manuel Azaña President on the first vote...
Beside a rural filling station six miles west of Clarksburg, W. Va. one day last week, some 200 public officials and plain citizens gathered around a square little building with slanting roof and shiny coat of white & orange paint. A driving windstorm had kept many a countryman from attending the ceremony. A storm of public ridicule had presumably made the State Health Commissioner and an Assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. cancel their scheduled appearances. Occasion was the dedication of the 100,000th sanitary pit privy built by relief workers in West Virginia...