Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Conchita was back on the circuit, in Quito. Ecuadorians jammed their old, wooden bull ring. Some even sat on the roof. Although the first bull was sluggish (dulling Conchita's artistry), the judges awarded her both ears. She passed one to the crowd, threw the other away. Aficionados understood: she knew she had not earned a trophy...
...kitchen that was then the largest in New England. On the second story were two more large rooms, one the library, and the other a lecture hall containing the College's "philosophical apparatus," which included such scientific instruments as orreries, telescopes and stuffed birds. In the cupola on the roof was the College bell, brought over from an Italian convent...
...soldiers of the Revolution, and Harvard Hall became both a storehouse and the commissary for the entire army in Cambridge. Treatment was none too gentle at the hands of the occupying troops and the building suffered considerable damage chiefly the loss of a thousand pounds of lead from its roof, which the soldiers converted into ammunition for their Revolutionary muzzleloaders...
Death in the Afternoon. The Sabbath in Jerusalem was clear and sunny. About 40 British officers and their guests lunched at Goldsmith House, the three-story officers' club on King George Avenue. Afterwards, half a dozen went to the roof for sun baths; some retired for siestas. The rest left. Sir Henry Gurney, Chief Secretary of the Palestine Government, kept a golf date...
Died. Harry Kendall Thaw, 76, multimillionaire turn-of-the-century playboy whose murder of famed Architect Stanford White over Evelyn Nesbit in 1906 was the granddaddy of all tabloid sensations; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami Beach. Eccentric girl-chaser Thaw put three bullets in White at a Manhattan roof garden for the alleged seduction, before Thaw had married her, of ex-Floradora Girl Evelyn...