Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost strangled me, but I kept my wits. I observed their faces carefully. One of them threatened to kill me. "For God's sake don't," I cried. "My money is in my left trouser pocket." They wrenched $25 out of my pocket and fled to the roof of the house. I found a policeman, was able to identify one Charles Logan when he was captured. Said I: "I was lucky." Charles Logan had an ugly knife.'" Edward of Wales: "In London smart young dancing men have been observed smoking 'midget cigarets,' half standard size...
...through the nearby Rocky Mountains (see p. 9). Dance halls threw themselves open. Radio reported a Manhattan prizefight (Delaney-Maloney, see p. 27) and "as a special feature" a death dive -a man hanging by his teeth to a pulley, sliding down a wire from the Post's roof to the street...
...attentive Uldine surveyed the aristocratic timbers in the roof of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, perhaps she concealed a flitting thought of the first time she had heard almost identical words?from the lips of a certain Aimee Semple McPherson, in Fresno, Calif., three years before. Uldine had entered the tabernacle with her blind grandfather, against her will. The pair had started for the girl's dancing school (she was thinking of entering the movies) but when it was found to be closed that afternoon, grandpappy?hearing choral voices across the street?suggested attending Aimee's revival meeting. They...
...fire, which did estimated damage of $5000 to the roof, is thought to have been caused by a defective chimney...
David Beatty, Earl of the North Sea, Admiral of the Fleet (British), First Sea Lord: "As I dined in state with many a guest, last week, at my estate, the Priory, Reigate, England, the roof caught fire. I, the hero of Jutland, watched the firemen until, convinced that they were louts, I climbed up a gutter pipe to direct their efforts. Stoutly, I shouted commands. My wife, the irrepressible daughter of the late Marshall Field (Dry Goods), cried to our guests: 'You see, the boy stands on the burning deck! Lord Beatty can resist everything but the temptation to command...