Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago the President and his party were met at the station by an escort of 100 uniformed policemen, and whisked away to the Hotel Sherman Annex. There they were quartered in a two-story bungalow just completed on the roof of the hotel, 300 feet above the street, on the 27th story, with a garden, fountain, dining room, reception hall and four bedrooms. The bedrooms were of no great use to the President, because he arrived early in the morning, went to the bungalow for a couple of hours, addressed the Farm Bureau Federation in the ballroom of the hotel...
...past years had been religiously removed the entire room was well sprayed. Axes were used to cut holes in the ceiling and corner of the room where the smoke was worst. With great difficulty, because of the ice on the floats ladders were placed and firemen climbed to the roof where holes were made through the tiles and water was poured in. The fire was easily put out and it is believed that little real damage, was done...
Last week the brothers Roosevelt (Theodore Jr. and Kermit) called down from "the roof tree of the world" that they had got what they clambered up for. Their cable from Turkestan began: "Have had good success with the Ovis poli [Marco Polo sheep]. Have excellent group of four rams, besides several other specimens for the Field Museum. Are going straight to Srinagar;" that is, starting home...
Last week the roof of the Park Chambers Hotel, Manhattan, appealed to the luxuriant inhabitant of many mansions as a bungalow site. Gloria Swanson, now La Marquise de la Falaise, approved plans for a $50,000 roof-cottage, to be built immediately from plans already drawn; left for a few weeks vacation in France, while construction is getting under...
...suave youth from the city. At the time of this fall from virtue there had been no fall of rain for many weeks. The climax came when the old couple learned of their daughter's dereliction. At about the same moment there came the patter of raindrops on the roof. The dusty years through which rain for the crops had come to be their cardinal concern had their effect. They cheered for the rain and forgot the family honor...