Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a score of sharpshooting police officers, armed with shotguns and revolvers surrounded an apartment building on Chicago's West Side. Some went on the roof while others climbed three flights of rickety stairs to a rear apartment. There they cut the wire out of a screen door, stepped into a room, found a sheepish little fellow of 25 with round pink cheeks, black hair, innocent hazel eyes. He was pulling on a pair of socks. It was Willie Doody. Tamely he surrendered, said he was "relieved" the chase was over, blamed "bad company" for his troubles...
...crossed the Ossetian Road on horseback. My dear, have you ever ridden in a Caucasian saddle? It's got a ridge as sharp as a roof. I had a pair of camel's hair breeches-have you ever worn camel's hair pants...
...last week was inspecting the balloon hangars at Langley Field, Va. Came urgent summons to attend the Senate Finance Committee's hearing on the tariff at Washington, 140 miles away. Capt. William J. Flood of the Army Air Corps, who earlier in the year landed a blimp on the roof of the Munitions Building in Washington, offered and proceeded to blimp the senator to "the front door of the capitol," depositing him conveniently in the plaza near the Senate wing. Predicted the most air-conscious senator: "That's the way all congressmen will arrive here soon...
...Barton (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes); in Paris. In a pre-nuptial contract, world-wandering Playwright O'Neill agreed to lease for 13 years the great Chateau de Plessis at St. Antoine Du Rocher, 25 miles from Tours, with a 600-acre game preserve. Miss Monterey also required installation of a roof garden, gymnasium, swimming pool...
...real. The crowd cheered and applauded. In an upper window the mock bride and groom looked funny as they gesticulated for help. The crowd roared heartily. Amid soaring flames, the clownish occupants of the building cut excited, silly capers. When the searchlight operator turned his beam on the blazing roof, he revealed what looked like a charred corpse. Nervous, delighted, the crowd's amusement increased...