Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thursday. Dreamed I was playing Lenglen. My arm was paralyzed. I couldn't lift my racquet, and her shots came as fast as bullets from a machine-gun. They fell all around me with monotonous little explosions, tum-tat-tat-tum. ... It was rain on the roof. . . . No tennis today, I thought, and went to sleep again till 11 o'clock. . . . Some minx started the rumor that Patou had given me $1,000 worth of clothes. When reporters asked him about it he said: "You know I never gave anything away in my life." A good friend...
...Hassam, Gertrude Whitney and Robert W. Chanler. The metropolitan critics, loyal patriots all, generously discussed the merits of the U. S. paintings: "Jazz," an experiment in abstract form by Man-Ray, an American living in Paris; a picture by Edward Hopper of a lonely blue house with a mansard roof, a lookout and three men in a boat called "The Bootleggers"; Thomas Benton's "New England." These subjects are indeed native. But if Mrs. Harriman has rendered an important service to art in her tri-national exhibition (and it is general opinion that she has), her service has been...
Great Excitement and little damage was caused in the square last evening at 6.32 o'clock when flames burst from under the eaves of Notman's studio, and headed for the roof. Six fire engines were immediately summoned to the scene, and ladders leaned against the building from the Massachusetts Avenue side...
...swaddled for its first show. The 31 cars exhibited came so far from filling the spacious Garden that an oval track was erected on the floor, around which the "horseless carriages" chug-chugged through their nursery paces to the mixed distrust and astonishment of gaping throngs. Up on the roof a demonstration "hill" was constructed, and here many an adventurous blood with money to spend had the ride that sold him his first motor...
...night club. They set up in the basement of the Century Theatre a Manhattan Chez Fysher, which has become for those who cherish French entertainment a notable night club. To make their investment the more lucrative, the brothers determined to incorporate these performers into a revue on the Century Roof. This handsome playhouse, which for so long was the lodging of the Chauve-Souris, has been completely and tastefully redecorated for the occasion and named the Casino de Paris...