Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madam," said the foremost ghost, an imperious woman with a bullet hole in her head, "what are you doing on our roof...
...former estate of Livadia. Allow me to cite the Intourist's Pocket Guide to the Soviet Union: 'This estate occupies 350 hectares of land, and includes a large park, two palaces and many vineyards. The newer palace [you are standing on its roof], built in 1911 by Krasnov in the style of the Italian Renaissance, is of white Inkerman stone, and contains nearly a hundred rooms. It has now been changed into a sanatorium for sick peasants, although certain of the rooms have been reserved as a museum...
...must ask you, Madam," said the Muse of History, "to stop dancing up & down on this roof. These old palaces are scarcely more substantial than you ghosts. I am glad to see that Marxism has had the same psychotherapeutic effect on you as on so many neurotics who join the Communist Party. But your notions about Russia and Stalin are highly abnormal. All right-thinking people now agree that Russia is a mighty friend of democracy. Stalin has become a conservative. In a few hours the whole civilized world will hail the historic decisions just reached beneath your feet...
Christmas Day was no holiday for James T. Milton, 54-year-old member of the maintenance department. He left home early that morning to shovel off the roof of Adams House, not stopping to open his Christmas presents or receive greetings from his family, and fell from the roof to his death on the Plympton Street sidewalk a few hours later...
Milton, a "veteran roof man" fell some 55 feet to the pavement...