Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosecutor tried to get her back to the subject of spying. "Ah," said Miss Moog, "I will not forget the flowers, the beautiful flowers at the roof garden. And those wonderful gentlemen. One gentleman, I remember, he said, 'I have not been in that wonderful America for eleven years. I love America,' he said. 'President Roosevelt is the greatest navy man in the world.' " Miss Moog ignored interruptions of the prosecutor, sighed on: "It made me very happy when those wonderful gentlemen said they liked President Roosevelt...
...women's dressmaking department on the second floor of Les Nouvelles Galeries. Into swift action went the bearded personnel manager. With smoke and flames spurting from Les Nouvelles Galeries and the whole second floor blazing, rotund Louis Frichet rushed panting up the stair case to the roof, carrying an armful of blankets...
...seen to offer to lead the way. The three salesgirls took the blankets and followed for a short distance, then their nerves cracked. Although brave Louis Frichet kept pleading with them and trying to hold them back, all three salesgirls finally, rather than face the flames, leaped off the roof to death. Alone with his blanket, the personnel manager began his delayed trip downstairs. It was too late. Not even the bones of Louis Frichet were found...
...station then gets through for a spot news broadcast from an old European border town. The announcer is stationed on a tenement roof and as he waits and fears for the enemy planes to come over, his microphone picks up the incongruous, commonplace sounds and voices of women chattering, of children playing. The 1930s have brought war to the kitchen, casualties to the bedroom floor. Air Raid reflects this horror unforgettably. Sounding like the voice in a newsreel from Madrid, Barcelona, Shanghai, Nanking, Poet Mac-Leish's tensed announcer fills in the waiting time by remarking...
...less than might have been supposed from reading the tearing-down stories in the press, that the full effect of pump-priming was still to be felt, that employment was gaining more than seasonally. The "spokesman" warned that the Administration will continue to prevent prices from going through the roof...