Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curtis used to be a jockey himself. He has an eye for fast horses the way some men have an eye for quick stocks. After the heat of the day it was cooling to return to Mr. Lasker's low, rambling white stucco villa (with rose tile roof) and listen to the Atlantic tapping on the sandy front lawn. Next door, like a Miamese twin, was the house of John D. Hertz, Yellow Cab tycoon. Mr. Hertz has a twin-motored Sikorsky in which the Vice President was tempted to take...
...Akron, Ind., Mrs. Jenny Rader last week sued Flyer Oscar Crabill and his passenger, Arthur Coblentz, for $1,000 damages because recently, "Although the portals of the plaintiff's home are always open to friends and guests," they entered the house by crashing through the roof...
...about the Hound and Horn in general is the diversity of the types of its contents. There seems to be no close relationship between "Anne Garner" or Mr. Bandler's conventional and scholarly essay on W. C. Brownell and the "new art" as represented by a photograph of the roof of Memorial Hall and Mr. Fitts undercoded poem about a synagogue. As a review it is neither a Fortnightly or a transition, but something of both. A definite editorial policy could not do any great harm and it would assure readers in sympathy with that policy of matter to their...
President Coolidge vacated his official home for seven months in 1927 while a new $400,000 roof was being put on. The ancient wooden beams were replaced with steel girders, the entire structure fire-proofed...
...Russell, the stud groom of Edward of Wales's stable stood at one side of the straw-covered arena of the Leicester House Repository at Melton Mowbray in the heart of England's hunting country. Rain was drumming on the roof and a dozen policemen strove to hold back the crowd. Inside the rows of boxes around the ring were jammed to suffocation and smartly dressed women clung perilously to railings. The Prince of Wales's 12 hunters were being sold...