Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...postponed. Hagen wanted it postponed himself. He explained that he had come all the way from Los Angeles in twelve days, and that except for that one day at Moor Park he hadn't had any practice except a few balls which he drove off the roof of his hotel into the Thames, and that he had been acting in the cinema all winter. Told that he would have to play anyway, he hired a detective to get him out of bed on time...
Briefly, a message from Spitzbergen announced that man had for the first time flown over "the roof of the world" in an airplane. Who sent the message no one knew, for the single wireless operator of this freezing colony of miners and trappers, was killed in an accident weeks ago and the new one had not yet arrived. Perhaps it was Capt. Wilkins himself, announcing success after three years of struggle, three attempted flights, five smashed planes, the death of one man during all of which turmoil Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd flew from Spitzbergen to the pole and back again...
Miller has never been popular. The people who look down from the roof of Madison Square Garden at hockey games had given him a nickname-"Red Light" Miller, drawing their title from the signal that flashes when a goal-guard lets in a shot. They had given Miller what is locally known as the Bronx Cheer, a huzzah of sarcastic intention. Rattled, Miller begged to be sent back to the minor leagues "where they wouldn't razz him." Now he was called to take the most important position on a team tied with the favorites for the hockey championship...
...made the subject of jest. One riveter drops a red hot rivet down the seat of another riveter's pants. Both are rivals for the hand of a chorus girl. The successful riveter (William Boyd) swings through the air on a chain, from his work to a theatre roof, in order to embrace the girl...
...merging into formation. And what a fight there will be when one huge phalanx starts stepping on another phalanx's toes! Automobile v. billiard table (go out and play v. stay home and play). Apartment v. baby carriage (a baby cannot be taken for a ride on a roof). Meat v. vegetable (doctors disagree). Radio v. crossword puzzle...