Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...express request of Benito all the Senators and Deputies, except three or four, appeared in full evening dress. One Deputy provoked convulsions of merriment by appearing in "tails" and yellow boots; one wore a black shirt. The appearance of the King was a signal for roof-lifting applause which was as loud as it was long. Vittorio Emanuele, dressed in the uniform of a general, took his seat upon a throne, erected under a canopy of red velvet, decorated with the Arms of Savoy in gold. Above and behind him were the Queen and the Princesses Mafalda and Giovanna, surrounded...
...tennis courts nearest the Newhall Boathouse to mark out the limits of the new cage, which will be one of the largest in the country when completed. The building will be 150 feet square, large enough to contain a complete infield. To indicate the height of the glass roof of the projected building, an extension ladder was roped upright in the con-center of the area which was marked off yesterday, rising nearly 60 feet into...
...heavens and through the roof came the bride-Peggy Wood, all dressed up in wedding clothes (running away at the altar). Like the heroine of the Three Wise Fools, her arrival is the signal for things to happen and happen they...
...Dust Heap. A Canadian-Northwest melodrama in which the very scenery gets up and acts. In a brothel on the Yukon, the roof pulsates while two men struggle on it, the chimney disgorges a handcuffed hero, a thunderbolt comes right into the room and wrecks everything but the heroine's marcel waves, glass crashes, beams fall, audiences quake. On the opening night, the people sitting in the first row dodged...
...fire which started from an unknown-source, damaged Massachusetts Hall, the oldest of the buildings in the Yard, Sunday morning to the extent of $5000. The fire was first discovered after it had eaten its way through a portion of the roof on the southern side of the building...