Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JERSEY: While the 147th Legislature in its closing hours was passing 27 bills over the veto of Governor Silzer, a storm tore off a section of the State House roof and blew in the plate glass windows of the Senate gallery. Governor Silzer's only comment on the last work of the legislators was: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow. If they stayed they could not do any more good, and if they leave they cannot do any more harm...
...wandering among their reminiscences, recalled that rainy night, 33 years ago, in the old convention building on the Chicago lakefront, when Cockran, on a stage over which rain trickled from the leaky roof, faced a howling gallery full of impatient supporters of Grover Cleveland for the Democratic presidential nomination-and nominated the hated David B. Hill...
...sure, as Kipling would say, that seems to be another story, and the first sight to greet Mr. Berlin or anyone else straying under the roof of Hemenway, is the aesthetic class. Perhaps the term "aesthetic" is misleading. Certainly nothing light and airy is in the minds of the performers gravely gravitating through the rhythmic movements of the exercise. Right hands become wrong hands. Feet become hay-feet, straw-feet, then lead feet. In fact the limbs of budding lawyers and scientists alike feel the call of the wild...
...football game tomorrow afternoon the University and Princeton bands will form in the middle of the field between the halves and play "The Star Spangled Banner". The signal will be a salute fired outside the Stadium and the sounding of "Taps" from the roof...
...country in the Great War, the University and Princeton bands will combine in the middle of the field during the halves of the game Saturday to play "The Star Spangled Banner". A salute will be fired outside the Stadium, and a bugler will sound "Taps" from the roof of the Stadium...