Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court, the pastime of billiards has had many offspring. Most impolite child is pool, which well-meaning persons have tried to dignify by calling it pocket billiards, publicizing it as a family game, rigging up modernistic equipment. Fortnight ago, when the world's championship opened on the Roof Garden of Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, the players maneuvered stiffly in dinner jackets before a sparkling audience on tiers of blue & gold seats, longed vainly for spittoons and overhead counters. A preopening shot was more reminiscent of the squalling & brawling of the corner pool parlor. Titleholder Ponzi refused to play...
While driving past Massachusetts Institute of Technology's swank No. 6 Club in Cambridge, Mass, one night, many a motorist was startled by a loud thwack on the roof of his car. Finally one driver stopped, found that his car had been dented, notified police. Few minutes later two patrolmen in a cruising car pulled up in front of "No. 6 Club, waited to be thwacked, were not disappointed. Spying a raised, unlighted window on the third floor, they sneaked upstairs, found Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt, 19-year-old son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, a friend named Peter...
...general reconditioning program has been necessary because of the poor conditions of the building. Lighting, heating, painting, and roof repairing have all been taken care of by the Club...
When they arrived the bird had flown to the roof of a nearby undertaking establishment where he spread an iridescent tail, fan-fashion, to show his pursuers he was a peacock not a vulture. He remained there until a policeman reached the roof, then took wing, flapped his way to the Hotel Wyndham, paused until his pursuers were in roping distance, flew away once more...
Meanwhile, however, Frances Langford has sung several, songs and lots of chorus girls have danced all over a roof-garden. Jack Benny has made nasty remarks in his newspaper column, and Buddy Ebsen has danced and clowned and been generally very pleasant...