Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come down." It is not likely that this maxim will ever be disproved, but there are ways and ways of "coming down." Refinements upon the art of gentle descent began at least five centuries ago when a quaint babu hugely diverted the court of Siam by jumping off the roof with two umbrellas hooked in his girdle...
...Kent, a big new Farman Goliath passenger plane, belonging to the French Air Union, sent chills through its 13 passengers by groping low for its bearings, faltering as with engine trouble. Steering over the marsh toward the village of Hurst, the pilot struggled with his controls. A barn roof loomed underneath. The world tipped crazily, spinning around. Crash! A haystack flew at the shrieking passengers, then another, then the cabin crushed in upon them, everything upside down in pain, screams, a horrifying silence. Some of the passengers regained consciousness before they were dragged out; some awoke in Folkestone and Sandgate...
...walked uprightly at liberty under a $10,000-bond profferred by his congregation. As the disciples sweltered within the House of God, 700 voices sent hymn upon hymn ("There is Power in the Blood," "Shall we Gather at the River," "Standing on the Promises of God") reverberating to the roof, while two pianos, psychologically caressed by relaying pianists, furnished additional emotion...
...insurance clerk sat in an office in Cornhill, England, arranging typewritten papers in neat dockets and whistling cheerily as if to show his indifference to the rain that beat a tattoo on his roof -like drumming hoofs, he thought. King George of England sat staring politely into the same rain from a box at a race track. In a leather chair in Berkeley Square, London, Lord Woolavington (once Sir James Buchanan) regarded the lengthening silver ash of his cigar, and though separated from each other by space and, apparently by opposing interests, the fortunes of these three gentlemen were interwoven...
...ponderous Cyril Tolley of England duffered out of the tournament with a suddenness and completeness that boded ill to Britain's Walker Cup chances later on, for Tolley is the British team's captain. But then U. S. Captain Robert Gardner spent a morning "hitting the ball on the roof" (i. e., topping shots) and dishonors were even. As one despatch paraphrased it: "His driving was singular and putting plural...