Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, or judge, then calls for a reconciliation at which the petitioner must be present and alone face the judge in secret. At this reconciliation the letter from the defendant refusing to return to the conjugal roof is read, proving that any conciliation is impossible...
...shadowy halls and at the gates of cities, under thatch, under rafter or with no roof but their caps between them and the gaping pocket of night, men played the harp-princes, captains, jongleurs, beggarmen. Their fingers wandered the strings, their heads bent to their music. Last week, the harp was played in Chicago. Enrico Tramonti, harpist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was permitted by Conductor Frederick Stock to play a solo on his instrument. Widor's Chorale et Variations he played. It is a good piece of music, well adapted to harp and orchestra. Chicagoans listened with interest...
...Riddle: Some 2,000 acres of meadow and rough woodland just west of Hartford, Conn., cut by boiling trout streams, bordered by the Farmington River. Built thereon, a rough-hewn stone village, copied after old Colonial villages, with heavy-timbered gables, hand-joined by wooden pegs; with split-oak roof-trees, slate-slabbed roofs and other backwoods atmosphere. In this village, a population of hardy schoolboys, citizen-students of Avon College (a school and junior college, preparatory to universities...
Major Moore said that such a roof on the Stadium press stand would be an excellent thing, but that he had not given the idea serious consideration because the velocity of the wind at the top of the Stadium is very great and to build a permanent covering would be made unpracticable by the expense. The Bowl is low and so the project there does not present the difficulties it would here. He also stated that the press stand is unsightly enough as it and a roof would probably add to its ugliness...
...afternoon David got up from his siesta and took a walk on the roof of the royal palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. She was a very beautiful woman to behold, and David sent to make inquiries about her. Someone said: "That must be Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite...