Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this centre of the Empire, I venture the opinion that we have been fortunate in establishing a notable landmark this year by opening up in Trafalgar Square a Canada Building in London where all the various activities of Canadian concern are at last usefully and conveniently assembled under one roof...
...next visitors called upon the Pope in the wee hours of the morning. His Holiness was in bed, and in order not to wake him the gentlemen made as little noise as possible; in order not to disturb his court, they considerately let themselves in by the roof of St. Peter's Basilica, visited the sacristy (treasury for sacred ornaments), left with valuables-an antique ring, a pectoral cross, a gilded chalice ornamented with pearls, a gold chalice and, among other things, a gold service for the mass presented by Cardinal Merry del Val. Two days later, robbers...
...come suddenly to his temple, said that sharp little prophet, Malachi. Had any seeker for the Lord pushed his way through the crowd of 8,000-odd witnesses and entered an uptown church in Manhattan, last week, he would have found refreshments in the basement and cinemas on the roof and a trick pony which told fortunes with stamping hoof and twitching ear-all for a small admission fee that the public gladly paid. Such were the festivities that followed, last week, the breaking of the ground for the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple, organized by one Dr, Christian...
John Coolidge visited with his grandfather at Plymouth, Vermont, where he shingled the roof. His 1925 height was measured off against the doorjamb, and showed a gain of ½ inch?...
...curtain speeches-all these things are to find concentrated the talent and devotion of distinguished lifetimes, giving homage to an ideal and receiving it in kind. It mattered not last week that Manhattan suffered from the most persistent heat wave of recent times. People gave up their roof gardens and their evening in the country to watch this brilliant assembly. John Drew, who shares with Mrs. Fiske the greatest honors of our Theatre, played through the whole week despite his advancing years, his failing sight-despite the temperature. The cheers that greeted him must have made it all worth while...