Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shuberts shrewdly took their plunge under the auspices of the New York Artists and Illustrators. The production is a professional version of the Illustrators' Show given last Winter at the Century Roof...
...edifice is built in pure Flemish Renaissance style (Rubens), the material being of white stone and red brick, with a roof of blue slate. The project to rebuild the entire library owes its inception to the efforts of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and the National Committee of the United States...
...Winter Garden installed a roof removable by levers from the stage. By this means have the Messrs. Shubert achieved perfect theatre ventilation for the Passing Show...
...third class?the writers who tell their troubles. Perhaps because the author seems to them a sort of impersonal, veiled prophet, they pour out to him or her the most intimate sort of confessions. They don't get on with their spouses, their children go wrong, the roof leaks, they are in trouble, sick, despairing, what to do ? Rather pitifully, they assume that the author can help them, tell them why and how, set life on its feet again. Strange...
...window, I requested a 'Bobby' to give me a 'leg up.' This he did. But no sooner had I got inside than I leapt out again−or I had invaded the room of one of the sleeping female servants. . . Eventually I climbed to the roof of a one-story wing of the palace, smashed a skylight, dropped through." Jim Johnson, Mayor of Shelby, Mont.: "The Common Council, in session, voted unanimously to invite the Prince of Wales to the Dempsey-Gibbons fight and the rodeo, July 4. Said the telegram in part: 'These...