Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge spoke in an even voice. His speech (see Page 4) was several times interrupted by applause in which no one took part more heartily than General Dawes. Those who were on the roof of the Capitol complained that the amplifiers did not carry the speech to them as well as they did four years ago. Whenever the President paused, his last words were echoed from the Senate and House wings on both sides. Possibly it was irritation from this echo that caused Senator Cole Blease, newly elected from South Carolina, to walk down the stairs from the stand...
Wednesday, April 15, Graduates' night at the Hasty Pudding Clubhouse; April 10 and 17, public performances at Cambridge in the Hasty Pudding Clubhouse; April 18, Northampton at the Academy of Music; April 20, Philadelphia, in the Ballroom of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel; April 21, Newark, on Proctor's Theatre Roof...
...work, when consulted about the problem, resented any suggestion of the practicability of building the walls around the derrick. At the same time he gave little support to the suggestions that have been advanced, clearing up the entire matter by explaining, "We'll just lift it out through the roof...
...morning he leaped from his warm couch, shivered, dashed for his clothes, forthwith ordered that his bed be put on a track, supplied with an electric motor. Financier Doherty now undresses in a warm room, climbs pajamaed into bed, presses a button, the bed slides out to the roof, an automatic door opening before it, closing behind it. Financier Doherty awakes, presses a button, the bed crawls into his room, the door clicks, he dresses...
...Springfield, Mass, capitalists decided to build a hotel, announced that on the roof of the business building next their site they, would construct "the world's most unusual roof garden." Loam four inches deep will cover the roof. In the middle will stand a fountain. All around will spread gravel walks, flower beds, grass plots. At night, the garden will be lighted by imitation park-lanterns; in the winter it will be kept at a heat proper for flowers and grass. Tables will be spread the year round. Guests of the hotel may enjoy fountain, flowers, lights, upon...