Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blew the roof off University Hall all right, all right," chuckled the Maintenance Department man as he wandered about the seats of the great yesterday afternoon. "Boy, the old roof floated off like a new hat on a windy...
...prepared for the sort of life & death contest which was about to be staged in their town. The 100-year-old courthouse seats only 250 people in all. More than 400 reporters and special correspondents have applied for seats at the trial. In the little room under the roof, Western Union set up 75 sending machines, Postal 50, a battery calculated to dispatch 1,000,000 words a day on the case. Sheriff John H. Curtiss (who added the second "s" to his name after the exposure of Boat-Builder John H. Curtis) good-naturedly turned over his private office...
...make peep shows of girls going to bed, the cook kissing the policeman and little Johnny getting a spanking. One of the firm's early artists was Mary Pickford, hired to pose at $5 per day when the weather was good. Photographs were taken on the roof of the company's building on 14th Street, under the direction of David Wark Griffith, whose salary was $25 per week. Soon the little company, then called American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., split, Biograph going on to cinema fame & fortune, American Mutoscope Co. to the manufacture of strength testographs, all manner...
Harvard Club of Chicago. Luncheon, December 26, 12.15 o'clock, "House on the Roof," Sherman Hotel, Chicago. Secretary, John W. Valentine, 115 W. Monroe St., Chicago...
...idea was put into effect as a result of injuries and near injuries which kept the residents of Wigglesworth in a state of continuous terror last winter. The steam outlets have been made through the roof by removing the slate, drilling until steam was struck in the maze of attic pipes, connecting the copper tube, and covering the hole in the roof again...