Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...door across a sanded driveway to a temporary booth where reporters waited. Excited watchers whispered to each other that it had come. Another child was born to the Empress Nagako. Would it be a boy? Would there finally be a direct heir to the throne of Japan? On the roof of the Tokyo fire house the siren hooted mournfully, rose to a high electric scream. Tokyo waited breathless. Then came another hoot, longer, more mournful. Sadly Tokyo realized that the Empress Nagako had borne another girl, her third.* Emperor Hirohito still lacked a son. The heir to the throne...
...affair than his, but they reflected credit on him - an entirely new species of chickens, called the "red and white," which Poland has adopted as its "national breed'' as a way of paying him a compliment. His chateau, four stories high, with a wooden chalet roof, was built by the Count de Maaroes and stands on a site first used by Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto, Napoleon's Minister of the Interior. From the terrace on which he was sitting the ground tapered away into a shadowy skirt of pines, cedar, lindens he had laid...
Half Marriage (RKO). After several reels of almost continuous kissing, Olive Borden is faced with a moment when the bad fellow who has been trying to get her away from her husband chases her up to the roof, makes a pass at her, falls over the edge, is killed. She wants to take the blame, and her husband wants to take the blame. The worst of it is that she has to explain to her father, who is a billionaire, that she is married. She had kept this a secret all the time and lived in her own house. Only...
...Arthur Conan Doyle was sitting in his garden near Southampton, England, with his family (wife, two sons, a daughter), when flames suddenly burst from the roof of his house. For an hour, local firemen, 100 villagers and the Doyles labored to save books and manuscripts. An old part of the house was consumed, a new addition saved. No Sherlock Holmes was needed to detect the cause: a spark on the old dry roof...
...legend of volcanoes Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl, Aztec lovers. When the theatre's site was excavated, workmen uncovered the steeple of a church which had sunk in the swampy ground. For months giant pumps injected concrete under the foundation, uselessly. The dome is unfinished but the structure has a roof. It is used for automobile shows, concerts. To raise more money the government once issued a special postage stamp. Most helpful have been the labor organizations which, for five years past, have labored slowly toward its completion...