Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bertha Turner, janitress, was walking upstairs followed by her police dog, Vol. Before reaching the top floor, Mrs. Bertha Turner turned into a room; her absent-minded Vol, his eyes upon his paws, failed to notice this and continued walking upstairs until he came out upon the roof. Soon he heard his name being called by the voice of Mrs. Bertha Turner. Excited, he twice whirled about on the roof top; she was not in sight. Suddenly he realized that the voice came from below; with a wild and silly hop he jumped over the edge of the parapet, fell...
Came the army to Newbury, where it took shelter for the night under the hospital almshouse roof of the Royal Arms of King John, where the famed Magna Charter was signed in 1215. But so tired were they that they cared not that their abode bore a royal name...
That something turned out to be a man on the roof trying his utmost to tear the red streamer down. With a bellow like a bull's the giant Mura-lov, onetime commander of the Moscow garrison and Trotsky's most devoted follower, elbowed his way through the crowd, scaled the side of the house like a human fly, mounted the roof, caught the offender by the scruff of the neck and the seat of the trousers, carried him to the edge of the roof, and dropped him from a safe height to the ground, where, terrified...
...take the movies very quietly here," continued Chadwick "I have seen things here, especially in the sub-titles, that would have raised the roof in an Oxford theatre, but the audience here was as staid as could...
...bright eye. Then, when the crazy, jazzy saxophone blew a blue note, Poetre filled the geyser-ish trumpet of her nose with air and water, blew out a moan more liquid than the trombone's. In wet clothes and a panic the minstrels scurried off. Squirrels. On the roof of a house in Canandaigua, N. Y., there stood a fat squirrel who looked like "Babe" Ruth. On the limb of an oak tree not far off, stood another. Soon the squirrel on the oak limb picked up an acorn, moistened it as if about to throw a spitball, pirouetted...