Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roof Garden of the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan, the sisters Delacorte -Consuelo, 19, Marianne, 18, and Victoria, 17-made a simultaneous debut under bowers of pink chrysanthemums and boughs of evergreens. Guests at the party -mostly collegians-drank more milk than champagne...
Unprincely Life. At Sandringham, the Duke recalls, King Edward VII occupied the merrily run "Big House" while David lived with his family in a "Bachelors' Cottage." "When the whole family was assembled under the roof, together with a lady-in-waiting for Mama and an equerry for Papa, a governess for Mary and one or two tutors for my brothers and myself, 'The Cottage' was full to bursting, so much so that when a puzzled visitor asked where the servants slept, my father answered that he didn't know, but supposed it was in the trees...
...waves start from the roof of a Telephone Co. building in Manhattan. A tricky metallic "lens" concentrates them into a narrow beam, sharper than the shaft of a searchlight, which points at the first relay station atop Jackie Jones Mountain, 35 miles away. A receiving lens gathers in the waves; an amplifier hops them up; a second transmitter beams them to the next hilltop relay. They make eight jumps to reach Boston...
...Audubon, N J., Mrs. Myrtle S. Lewis defied a notice from her landlord to vacate a six-room house. Landlord David C. Lang then removed the roof. But the First Presbyterian Church Men's Club started building Mrs. Lewis a new roof. Despite a risk of prosecution for trespassing, the Men's Club remained firm in its "belief that all people should have roofs over their heads...
...liked baked hot dogs and red wine. When she felt real low, she gave herself "vitamin" shots, and she often felt low because "they all go for young girls and skinny widows under 35. Nobody wants to sleep with a middle-aged old widow as big as a ginhouse roof. I haven't got a chance in the world...