Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...balloon. You will sail over the fence so easily and land so gently that you will be surprised. Barns and trees can be surmounted with more vigorous leaps, usually requiring a light second push-up with the tip of the toe on the barn's roof or on the tree's outlying branches...
Last week a huge stone, hurling down from a partly wrecked tower, burst through the Chapel roof, obliterated the blasphemous mural of Wilhelm, and finally became motionless below the unscathed portrait of Jehovah...
...Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly expects soon to collect $1,000 per week in vaudeville. No singer, no dancer, no card-trickster, no chatterer, no club-swinger is Mr. Kelly. He is a sitter. Last week he came down from a seat fastened to the top of the flagpole on the roof of the St. Francis Hotel, Newark, N. J. There he had perched continuously for twelve days and twelve hours (TIME, June...
During this period the hotel roof was peopled with wide-eyed, neck-cramped gazers at 25c per head. Others, equally curious but less solvent, jammed streets, stopped traffic, broke down fences, trampled lawns. Concessionaires opened hotdog, coffee, soft drink and peanut dispensaries...
Eventually, stiff, sore, weak from twelve days' abstaining from solid food, Mr. Kelly came down. First he kissed his 19-year-old bride of six months, who had kept watch on the hotel roof, and hoisted up supplies on a pulley system. Then he prepared to exercise the cramped fingers of his right hand in the pleasant task of signing the vaudeville contract promised as the fruit of his labors...