Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caught in the freeze. From Detour to the "Soo" they stretched in long file, like sausages linked out over a gutter of lard. Reefered sailors dog-trotted up and down the long iron decks; flapped their cold arms against their bodies, like turkeys trying to fly to a shed roof; dared not pull off their mittens to blow their noses. There was wind and snow. Men hunched up their shoulders and pulled their necks into sweater collars. Like horses miserable in a gale, they turned their backs to the blowing...
...midnight, on the Frankfurt-Hamburg express, a girl, 9, got out of her berth. She climbed up on the roof of the car. There she slept. When the train reached Hamburg a brakeman brought her down, chilly, but well-rested, returned her to her mother. The older woman apologized. Unfortunate, most unfortunate-not surprising. Her daughter was a somnambulist...
...Thanksgiving Day banquet in London. Queen Alexandra died (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), so the dinner was canceled. This November, the chef of the Savoy said that "Jim" was too tough, despatched him back to a peaceful old age on his Kent farm. ¶The second story and roof of the White House are in need of repairs which may take six months to complete. So next March, after the Washington social season, the President and Mrs. Coolidge will take up residence in a hotel as they did in the Vice Presidential days...
...demonstrations, held first or the roof of the Postoffice, later on Salisbury Plain and across Bristol Channel, were so successful that the Italian Government invited me home in 1897, to demonstrate at Spezia, and in Rome before King Humbert and Queen Margherita, Again success was mine. The distance over which I could send anc receive messages was constantly increasing-first a room's length then a building's, a mile, four miles ten miles, twenty miles...
...dinner when a terrific rumbling, surging noise rent the air. A thousand windows crashed, and the building oscillated. . . . The floor reeled under my feet. All the lights failed. We expected momentarily the roof to fall and smother...