Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human riddle. Such a spirit if it lived, and it did, in Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol ... as recently as the last century cannot have been obliterated by the domination of a material-thinking group within a few short years. As well to imagine that a tin roof can obliterate the sunrise...
Last week, they did it. After 22 years in power, the roof finally fell in on McFeely. Hoboken's jubilant voters swept the 64-year-old boss and all his henchmen out of office. As the returns came in, they cheered, waved torchlights and paraded in the streets. Three of the new city commissioners were Italians, one was an Irish cop whom McFeely had persecuted, and one was a C.I.O. union leader. An Italian, Fred M. DeSapio, became mayor...
...like that everywhere. In a recent raid on the farm of one Franz Gutland, near Munich, police found two tons of potatoes, 700 eggs, a slaughtered calf and a cow, 15 tons of wheat, one ton of coal, 1,200 gallons of gasoline, 20 pairs of trousers, 7,000 roof tiles...
Perhaps the most ballyhooed performer is Mathis Duo (first time in America) who rides a bicycle upside down somewhere close to the Garden's roof. Although the band doesn't play "A Bicycle Built For Two," the effect is quite convincing if not entirely stylish. Another show-stopper hides under the title of the Newest Sensation on the High-wire, and the star (also new in the States) manages to skip a three-foot rope nearer the ceiling than anywhere else. Before and after his dance he walks up and down a slanting wire, and, though he sways back...
...speech by one Mrs. W. Wakefield, billed as "a mistress who has never had any servant troubles." Mrs. Wakefield divulged part of the secret of her success: "I have always encouraged my girls to bring their boy friends home. I like them to do their courting under my roof...