Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Words, Words. In San Francisco, while Pastor Nicholas lounger preached eloquently on "fire prevention-its acute necessity," flames consumed the church's roof...
...Treat the Press. On the roof of a Yokohama office building, the Emperor blinked out over the devastated city, peered at the harbor through binoculars. American photographers surrounded him. As he prepared to leave, I started for the staircase. Somehow the Emperor, got there at the same moment. I backed off. Hirohito backed off. I said "Dozo" ("Please"). After a second we both started again and then checked. A worried aide bowed and extended a gloved hand toward the stairs. "No, I cannot go in front of the Emperor," I said. Hirohito deadpanned...
...they at once bought 40 acres and a log house high up near the cold shoulders of the Olympic Mountains in the "most rugged, most westerly, greatest, deepest, largest, wildest, gamiest, richest, most fertile, loneliest, most desolate" countryside she had ever seen. The house had no running water, little roof, and the vines were crawling across the floors. But the first body-numbing summer had to be spent building cozy quarters for the chickens before work could be done on the house. The soil produced lavishly. The stock was prolific. So was the local population: the countryside was studded with...
...Stafford Cripps, rigidly respectable president of Britain's Board of Trade, who looks like a cross between Woodrow Wilson and an old maid, plumped for more public aid to private romance. "Love in a cottage is all very well," he observed, "if the roof doesn't leak." Mere muddling-through in marriage, said he, is the result of unlettered prudery. "We have been half-ashamed of our divinely created animal instincts...
...Army" of Bataan, announced that in Michigan he would be a candidate for the U.S. Senate. In Manila one Olivia Josephine Oswald, shapely Filipina, announced that she was Mrs. Arthur Wermuth, sued for an annulment (and 200 pesos a month). He had married her, said she, on the roof of a Manila hotel in 1941; as parti i evidence she produced a group photo of herself, the one-man army, and another couple. She called it a wedding-day picture. Major Wermuth, married to a U.S. girl since 1935, called it just a picture. Said...