Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That night the doctor gave a dinner to the prohibition agents. He gave it in the Japanese Roof Garden of the Ritz-Carlton. It was alleged that the agents bought champagne at $20 a bottle. In this way they acquired an idea of Ritziness...
Straightway they prepared an injunction and many padlocks for use, not against the Ritz Roof Garden, but against the entire hotel, rendezvous des élites, cercle du beau monde. This was not only unprecedented, it was superlative, it was Ritzy...
...historical spot at which the Democratic National Convention assembled. In the middle of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, in the pit where the delegates sat, only a few days before ardent swimmers had been splashing. The roof, that had often resounded with cheering of prizefight fans and from which circus acrobats had dangled in airy peril, was decked with the colors of the nation. The Convention restaurant, every year, had exhibited the freaks of the circus. The theatre in the building, which ordinarily was the seat of indescribable plays set forth in indescribable Yiddish, had been converted into a "Convention...
...plain, simple language it is a paper with the largest and blackest and boldest of headlines?a real rival in that respect for Wm. R. Hearst. It is a paper which carries on its front page stories of "Bomb's Deadly Work," "Fleeing Heat, Dies as He Falls Off Roof on East Side," "Divorcée's Navy Romance Revealed in Suit," "Pair Captured After Chase in Narcotic Theft," "General Wood's Kin Three Days in Sea." It carries three snappy pages of sport news. Its foreign news (when it can be found) tells: "Ten Men Killed in Moroccan...
Then if, upon my roof-tree...