Word: roof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet of Premier Walery Slawek moved slowly down the aisle. Outside the sun was just breaking through the rain clouds. Along silent streets lined with troops and weeping crowds, the body passed. At one spot there was a near panic. A ladder left by some workman on a tile roof clattered to the ground. People screamed, broke windows, milled about, until square-capped officers with drawn sabres had cleared a path...
Suddenly the whole craft disintegrated, spilling men, women, children amid falling fragments. Part of the fuselage landed on a worker's house in Moscow's outskirts, wrecked it from roof to cellar. Wings, motors, equipment, bodies and parts of bodies fell far & wide. Of the 48 on board, all were killed. Also killed was the pilot of the little training plane...
Such a congregation as heard "The Son of God Goes Forth to War" resound from the roof above Bronson Cutting's copper coffin has seldom sat in one church. There were J. P. Morgan* and A. F. of L.'s William Collins, Walter Lippmann and Nicholas Murray Butler, Colonel House and Hiram Johnson, Sir Ronald Lindsay and Norman Thomas, Alice Longworth and Mrs. August Belmont, Joseph H. Choate Jr. and Senator La Follette, the President's mother and Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Senator Vandenberg and Isabella Greenway, soft-spoken Spanish Americans and nasal-twanged Yankees, stockbrokers who dwell...
...HOUSE ON THE ROOF-Mignon G. Eberhart-Doubleday, Doran ($2). The usual rainstorm, with better-than-usual characterizations, including an aging singer, a nice young girl, a nice young man, by an increasingly popular young author...
...Star, wrote his 1,340 members: "It would be impossible to plan a procedure that would more effectively scuttle the Associated Press than the proposals advanced by Mr. Neylan." The battle for proxies went on until last week, when it moved onto the floor of the incongruously elegant Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. His big frame draped over a front-row chair whence he could easily address barbed asides to President Noyes on the platform. Lawyer Neylan let a potent "lit tle fellow" open his attack for a five-point program. The little fellow was youthful...