Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month she invited the dancer, now Roberta Jonay to dance at the Press Party in the White House (TIME, June 7). Result: Miss Jonay got a job in the floor show at Washington's Shoreham. Ever-generous Mrs. Roosevelt insisted that her friend stay on under her great roof, sleeping in the Rose Room, taking her meals with the family, traveling out Connecticut Ave. every evening in a White House limousine to do her 15-minute turn at the Shoreham. Last week Roberta Jonay, bound for Broadway, was as morally certain of landing a good job as a lucky...
...from all the noise and crowding, and onto the Common. How lonely and barren. How empty the paths winding under the dripping trees and haloed lamps. Misty forms stroll arm in arm along the banks of the swan pond. Like an oasis shunned, the Common lies abashed under the roof of pale clouds. Autos beat a noisy circle about the park, tires licking the pavement. Ahead tower the fortresses of Beacon Hill, cold and Puritanical...
...unusual manner. The waves do not leave the station via an aerial strung outside the transmitting building, but follow wires strung along the tracks, When they reach a point opposite the speeding train, the waves 'jump' to the aerial of the receiving set on the roof of the train...
...Princess Marina of Greece, the Duchess of Kent's pre-abdication backing of Mrs. Simpson was due almost entirely to her delight in annoying her Scottish sisters-in-law, but she has frequently let it be known that she would never spend a night under the same roof with "that woman" (Wallis Warfield). At week's end news of a compromise of a sort emerged...
...miles of wire and twelve tons of equipment, poured a Babel of sounds-trumpets, cheers, tramping, coughs, prayers, commentaries-to be sifted and unified, put on the world's ether waves. In the Abbey alone were 30 microphones-one of them, supersensitive, was hung high in the vaulted roof over the chancel-to catch every syllable of the historic service. Radio officials later estimated that 83% of the world's potential radio audience listened in at all hours. In the U. S. alone, some 300 stations took up the waves from London for the longest transatlantic broadcast ever...