Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...west wind swished the flames from the west block across the entire prison. The bellowings of trapped men, grilled alive, ceased when the west block roof collapsed. Guards and prisoners worked shoulder to shoulder dragging out the dead and dying. The first fatality estimate leaped from 20 to 100, then to 200, then above 300 as body after body was lugged out of the still fiery debris...
...there should be an impetus to the interest in Wall Street already exhibited by the men of the cloth. There have been surer methods of providing for the daily bread, but none have transcended mediocrity with a more ecstatic revelation of the divine afflatus than glows beneath the raftered roof of the chapel in the Berkshires...
...Nichols hit the bow of the Corsair IV with a bottle of 1915 champagne donated by the Iron Works. The Corsair IV slid perfectly into the Kennebec River, where it floated nicely. In the excitement one Fred Meillieux, employe of the Iron Works, fell off a 40-ft. roof...
...Toulouse, France, Jean Vives, postman, went mad when he could find no mail to deliver. He perched on the roof of a house, tore off tiles which he hurled at passersby, was finally removed by the fire department...
Chicago finally became too small for him. He went to Florida where officials did not receive him cordially. Through a dummy he purchased for $65,000 a great white stucco house with a nile-green tiled roof on Palm Island between Miami and Miami Beach, built a wall around it like a fortress. He attempted to win local favor by enormous dinners to all who would come, $20 tips to tradesmen. He served champagne regularly, barely sipped his own glass. About him were always seven swart Sicilians, his bodyguard. He collected his family about him, his Irish wife...