Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happened to me once you are sent to New Jersey to hunt a man-eating shark just go to the Amsterdam Roof Gar- den and after about four hours telephone that the shark was last seen fluking his tall well outside the three-mile limit. If you are sent to burglarize some woman's flat for pictures say that the fire escape was blocked by parked babies. You'll have to match cynicism with cynicism...
...French Government officially accepted a recent offer by John Davison Rockefeller, Jr., of $1,000,000 for reconstruction of the roof of Rheims Cathedral, repairs to the fountains of Versailles, general reconditioning of the grounds of Fontainebleau Palace. In thanking Mr. Rockefeller for his munificence, Premier Poincare declared it to be "witness of your unswerving friendship for France and your admiration for her architectural glories which belong, as you so well say, to the artistic patrimony of the whole world...
...proposed broadcasting set would be placed on the colonnade roof at the West side of the stadium. It would consist of a small portable building, 12 feet square, to be located over the West tower. In this building all the broadcasting apparatus would be housed. The aerial would be supported by two 50-foot poles, one near the instrument house and the other, 30 feet away, close by the press...
...perform before their village audiences. By day the truck appears like any other truck upon the road. At night, its, sides are folded out and supported on hinged legs, giving a stage some 15 feet square. An upper stage is placed over the driver's seat. Then a canvas roof and background is raised over the platform, tents are raised to right and left for dressing rooms, and a curtain stretched between...
...like Scaramouche, in a gaily painted wagon. So much, in these experiments, depends on the method of approach, that the loss in travelling time would be more than offset by the resultant gain in advertising, which could be achieved by having the comedian, in blackface, clashing cymbals from the roof of a purple-and-yellow moving van; as the caravan wound at an impressive pace through the countryside. Still, one can't have everything. For the present, Maine and New Hampshire will have to be content with the Ford truck and the famous Dramatic Club lighting. Perhaps another year will...