Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sinners Meet are four amiable peewees, admirably suited to his favorite pastime of interrupting elopements to make sure that the participants are well matched. Leonard (Reginald Owen) is a gruff and ignorant milord running off with a charming lady named Anne (Diana Wynyard). Under Mr. Latimer's hospitable roof he is surprised to meet his wife Eustasia (Billie Burke) eloping with a toothy young bachelor named Nicholas (Alan Mowbray). By the time Mr. Latimer has given both his male guests colds in the head, stolen their razors and ruined their clothes to make them ridiculous, the two couples have...
...nose in the ring and acting as referee. After Mr. Dublinsky and Mr. Wolfe had finished with each other, the celebrants moved en masse to the Hotel Peabody, a copy of which graces every U. S. town. Unhappily, the opening of the new Egyptian Nile Club on the roof had to be postponed...
Atop an unfinished Miami hotel, Shirley Brewer breathed deep of the clear night air, smiled down at the spread-out city, caroled up to the far-off stars, tripped, toppled off the roof. But Death was not ready for him. Fifteen stories up, a narrow ledge broke his fall, saved his life, left him with a leg jammed in a masonry hole. For six days and nights he struggled to tear his leg free, screamed, stared up at the sky through wind, rain, sun, mist. Then, as a workman discovered him, Death was ready for Shirley Brewer...
...Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (1896) was written by Maude Nugent who sang as a soubrette at Tony Pastor's on Fourteenth Street, at the old Madison Square Garden Roof where Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White. Maude Nugent is a grandmother now, gets some $400 a year royalties from "Rosie O'Grady." She lives with a daughter in uptown. Manhattan...
Twelve thousand Saints sat one day last week beneath the vast, umbrella-like roof of the Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. Members of that bustling sect which has 700,000 communicants and the largest priesthood per capita in Christendom (158,045 of the worthiest Mormon males), they had come from every white nation and from Hawaii, the Philippines and the South Seas, to attend their church's 104th annual conference. As always, this opened on the anniversary of that day (April 6) in 1830 when Prophet-Founder Joseph Smith with six others organized the Church...