Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could, but not without pitching overboard one of his passengers, one Peter Kanevaros of Jaffersonville, Ind. While the gentleman from Indiana was bobbing up and paddling back to the plane, Pilot Dinsmore quickly instructed his remarkably calm companions. They broke a cabin window and chopped a hole in the roof. They took posts on the broad wings and fuselage as they were told, distributing weight as evenly as possible to help the fabric keep them afloat. They were a little scared. The ship's heavy engines were taking her down nose first...
...royal palace of Jeremy at King-town was an old hut open on all sides and with a roof of palm leaves supported on sticks about 16 feet apart. His court with pirates and shipwrecked negroes, the Mosquito nation emerged a composite people to be reckoned with by European fury and a half of racial intermixture or gorgets of gold to relieve their paint-streaked. But after a con-consisted of two elderly wives, a son, and three daughters. Yet the astonishing fact remained that this barbarian wielded great power on the Caribbean...
...slow us up a bit. Naturally, 'Jezebel's' brakes burned out and we dashed down at terrific speed. At the bottom, we hit another car, demolishing it, and then flattened five concrete posts before, turning over in a ditch. Shute and I went out through the roof at the first collision, but Barrier was pinned down and had his arm broken...
...Chicago where Peter's grandsons, dry Daniel and black Thane, have amassed fortunes by the opening of the pres-ent century. Today the Pardways are decayed and blown to the earth's ends; in their author's figure, the pillars of their temple have crumbled, the roof crashed. Their tragedy is that Daniel, who alone had increase, devoted more attention to the altitude of his pile than to the soundness of his breed...
...Clubs, the Tiffany and Gorham buildings, the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, the Library of Columbia University, and finally, the old Madison Square Garden (torn down last year). This bulking sultry building, with its hippodromes and galleries, tapering to Saint-Gaudens' winged Diana on its central citadel, had a roof garden with a cabaret show and a smart orchestra. Up in the tower, Stanford White had apartments, reached by the same elevator that communicated with the cabaret's chorus dressing-room. That June night, after the theatre, Mr. White had gone to the cabaret. He sat about...