Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squeaking wheel of morale, President Harry Magnuson and "charge d'affaires' Hill Harrington have started preparations for an all time high in class dances. It's to be held Saturday, January 27, at the Parker House. Tickets will soon be on sale with all classes invited. The Parker Roof may be a bit ley but it still has the most sentimental lookout in Boston...
...Butter. Money flowed freely. It flowed into department stores. Their sales were a big 10% over the year before. It flowed into real estate. Homeowners sold out at high profits-until they found that all profits were not enough to buy another roof for over their heads. Money flowed into the stockmarket, bulling up stocks month after month until they reached their highest point since 1940. There was money for everything, for jewels, for mink coats, for Broadway shows...
Helen now runs the Moby Dick Bookshop in Allentown, Pa. George was shingling the roof of their nearby farmhouse when Helen heard that the Book-of-the-Month Club had taken Anything Can Happen as one of its January choices. (Selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club usually means at least $30,000 for the author.) Helen was afraid to tell him, fearing he would fall off the roof. When they told an immigrant friend that the Book-of-the-Month Club had taken the book: "Don't worry," said the friend, "it's not worth...
Snap, Crackle, Pop! In Granite, Colo., Bill Lane, unable to start his frigid truck, built a fire under it, ignited the garage, exploded an oil barrel, blew the roof off the garage, injured a friend, splattered the west side of Granite with burning oil, brought out the Leadville Fire Department, burned his house down...
...front, there was the most representative Anglo-American audience ever gathered under one roof in Britain. Impeccable Anthony Eden was there, and Mr. & Mrs. Clement Atlee. Viscount Camrose received in the royal box, along with Viscount Trenchard, president of the American & British Commonwealth Association. Viscount and Viscountess Simon came in, also Sir Andrew and Lady Cunningham, Sir Charles and Lady Portal, Sir Alan and Lady Brooke. The U.S. was represented by Ambassador John G. Winant, and its soldiery...