Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, in 1930, when his wife Sarah died, he got the answer. After he buried her he called in the local tombstone merchant, and told him to get to work. He wanted a tomb as big as a house, with six polished stone pillars and a shiny granite roof as thick as a bomb shelter. He also wanted two marble statues: Sarah and John M. Davis as young folks, sitting discreetly at opposite ends of a love seat. The statues were made in Italy, modeled after pictures from the Davis photo album and they cost a mint of money...
...manager of the White House department store was blown through the post office door. The invisible force smashed the doors and windows of the First State Bank and scattered money all over the floor. It tossed Mrs. Tena Lide out through a second-story window, twisted the steel roof beams of the auditorium, puffed in the roof and a wall of the Jewel Theater, knocked out the gas, light and water systems and pancaked rows of houses...
Spring's coming brought an announcement last week from Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University, that repairs on the old roof will start as soon as other commitments allow. Kenneth J. Conant '15, professor of Architecture, is in charge of redecoration plans...
Professor Conant's plan call for replacing the wartime roof with the old-style gray slate, adding a touch of red striping for color. He also would return the ironwork fence, the original weather vanes, and the three small pinnacles which rose above each clock face...
...Connolly, who had won three in a row for the Varsity, seemed on his way to a well-deserved victory over the Crusaders, for whom he pitched as a Freshman in 1942, when the roof fell in on the Crimson in the ninth...