Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simpson's London house on the night of his arrival with her chaperon Aunt Bessie. Cousin Wallis was spending the weekend in the country with King Edward. After dinner, conscientious Aunt Bessie left Mr. Noyes in London and drove out to stay Monday night under the same roof as the King & Mrs. Simpson...
...lawyers to badger the King's Proctor, but a discharged servant of Edward VIII was said to be not only willing but anxious to have "revenge" upon his former employer by testifying as to whether or not Mrs. Simpson had always been chaperoned when sleeping under the royal roof. In these ghastly circumstances, Britons could only hope that Baldwin the Magnificent (see p. 17) had, with sealed lips all round, already obtained the final divorce of Mrs. Simpson as well as her formal, signed and sealed undertakings to remain...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, accustomed to the endless transformations of this chameleon edifice, stood aghast as they watched it become something it had never been before : a snowy mountain top. From the centre of the arena floor to the top of the gallery-so close to the roof a skier had to crouch so as not to bump his head- stretched a 152-ft, 45-degree ski slide, covered with artificial snow. Set in the white pavilion of the arena floor were two miniature skating ponds. It was New York's first wintersports show, patterned on wintersports...
...only did 10,000 drenched soldiers present arms along the line of march, but many times as many soaking Argentineans turned out to wave farewell to this simpático Yankee. For once Franklin Roosevelt consented to ride in a limousine on a bad day. The car's roof was plastered with the sopping petals of flowers thrown from balconies. At the waterside President Roosevelt stopped to shake hands with the Argentine chauffeur, who beamed from ear to ear at the unexpected honor. The crowd cheered filial devotion as Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt buttoned a yellow slicker up around...
...little poor girl) saved from the possibility of bathos and given a certain wistful distinction by Patricia MacMakin, who shows up best in the scene immediately after her rescue, when, naive and self-contained, she discourses on the family failing for falling off things--her father fell off the roof only last week. This same parent (who, it seems, fell on something--something which broke his fall) was given the full distinction which the role offered by Sardis Lawrence, who brought out all the irony, all the spirit, and all the easy-going-live-and-let-live character of Madge...