Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ridiculous financial requirements for space. Six dollars a month is, one mutters, an outrageous price to charge a man for leaving his car with no other cover but the sky. Six dollars a month ... many proprietors near the Square charge less or only slightly more for a roof and steam heat. Six dollars a month. . . four cars or so--with provision for four dozen...
...family of Bronx Jews. The burden of Playwright Odets' lament is that the Bergers and their friends would not be so wretched if it were not for the crushing tyranny of the capitalist system. Grandfather Berger, an old Marxist, would not be compelled to jump off the roof in despair. Daughter Hennie would not have to marry a simpleton after Moe Axelrod, the embittered disabled veteran, gives her a baby. Son Ralph would not have to pine for the sweetheart and sport shoes he cannot possess on his $16-a-week salary...
...communal housing. To the romantic the apartment house is of course far from desirable; he likes to know his neighbors because they live next door or a few rods down the street, and is grieved not to know them because they live--twenty suites of them--under his same roof. Housing is a realist art, however, the care of the statesman, and since it marches with economics, modern housing progresses or recedes, according to the economic system...
...Museum. Not until last August did he have a shop he considered fit to invite his fellow members to, but the spotless, simple grey building to which the armor collectors went last week seemed like a sort of New Deal blacksmith's heaven. There are showers and a roof where his 35 craftsmen and associates can take sun baths. Light pours in during the day and not far from the roaring furnaces and clanging anvils stand vases of cut flowers...
...minor Erie R. R. official who died when his son was 15, President Moffatt got his start as a Postal Telegraph messenger boy in Scranton, Pa. He bought his Curb seat in 1923, two years after that boisterous outdoor market sought the dignity and protection of a roof...