Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Build me a home; I am hungry For the bark of a dog in a lane, For the sight of a light in a window at night And the song of a roof in the rain...
Robert Frost, in his valedictory appearance in Cambridge last night, drew the largest crowd which has been assembled under one roof at Harvard this year--when the white-haired Charles Eliot Norton lecturer ascended the restrum in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock, he faced a packed house of 1800 people...
...hired by Mrs. Faulkner to check up on the nocturnal activities of her spouse claims to have seen Faulkner shot by his former secretary and mistress, Karen Andre, but he can't be sure that the corpse was Faulkner because Miss Andre proceeded to push it off her penthouse roof and it got rather spread out on the pavement many stories below...
Miss Andre claims that it wasn't Faulkner whom she thrust from the roof but the already dead body of a gangster. She says that Faulkner and she were planning to start life anew in South America and, in order to start from scratch, Faulkner had decided to make the public believe that he had committed suicide; thus the byplay with the gangster's body. The state charges that it was Faulkner's body; Miss Andre holds to her version, and the jury decides...
...Lowell power plant one freezing midnight, the cab of a traveling crane operated by one John McCoy, 47, fell, landed on a steel girder 50 feet above the ground. John McCoy, finding his right arm vised between the girder and the roof of his cab, let out a yell that brought firemen, a priest and a doctor...