Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold flapper ("There were two kinds of men, those you played with and those you might marry") described in the elegant, slightly elegiac prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald; the frat boys going through their rituals as if life itself depended on them ("every night a freshman stood on the roof of the Nu Delta house and announced the time every 15 seconds"); the blonde whom gentlemen preferred and who was thrilled to see in Paris "the historical spot where Mr. Coty makes all the perfume...
...armed services, which have been in an unseemly scrap over functions and prerogatives ever since they were put under one boss 13 months ago, were put in positions where they could carry on the fight under one roof. From its headquarters on Constitution Avenue, the Navy high command last week started moving across the Potomac to join the Army and Air Force in the Pentagon...
...evening after dark, a Californian (assisted by an outlander from the state of Washington) shinnied over the fence into damp and deserted Wembley Stadium. The only light they could see was the Olympic flame flickering in its great urn. They slipped past the guards, climbed up onto the roof and hauled down the large five-ringed Olympic flag, which waved above the royal box. Into a bag it went. Following it went some smaller flags-the British, Dutch, Panamanian and Italian. Then they escaped...
...production two notable Reinhardt touches. After Eurydice's funeral, the mountain wall which towers up behind the stage came alive with song; a chorus of 65 demons had been strung along its side. In the following scene, in which Orpheus arrives in Elysium, the theater's canvas roof was rolled back, revealing a starlit summer...
...pestles his womenfolk had used to prepare his food. Since the postholes were vertical and some five inches in diameter, the house could not have been a lean-to like those built by some primitive Indians. It must have been made of substantial materials, with walls and a roof...