Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malay jungle he knows at once what causes each and every noise. "The East Indian binturong," says he, ''is a strange creature, half-bear, half-cat." Presently the binturong is laughing in a cage. When Frank Buck pitches a camp, white monkeys swarm on the roof. When he looks at a tree, there is a leopard in it. When a friendly potentate gives him a pig for Thanksgiving dinner, a python crawls halfway into the pig's pen, eats the pig, finds itself trapped. To catch langur monkeys, he makes a one-inch hole in a coconut...
...identity, explained that until he boarded the President Garfield he had never made a trip alone in his life. If tried, convicted and sentenced to death for murder on the high seas, he will be executed by the Federal Government on Federal property-possibly Governors Island, possibly the roof of the Post Office Building...
...Frankfort-On-Main birth register: "Schiff, Moses, Israelitish citizen, whose wife Clara, nee Niederhofheim, gave birth on Sunday morning, Jan. 10, at 5 o'clock, to a legitimate son-Jacob Henry." The Schiffs were merchants in a city of great Jewish banking houses. Under the same roof but a few doors down from the Schiffs on what was then known as Jew Street was the ancestral home of the Rothschilds (see p. 20). The Frankfort air was heavy with money. When Jacob Henry Schiff arrived in Manhattan the year the Civil War ended he instinctively turned to brokerage...
...Dance tells of a wild household of hyphenated Americans noisily existing on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Head of the house was Papa Bruno, famed musician who somehow managed to do his composing in the same room with a squabbling family bridge game. Other dwellers under the stormy roof were his peasanty wife, a fat daughter and her secretive husband, a loafing son with whom Bruno was always on the verge of a dangerous quarrel, a superannuated clerk who idolized Bruno but hated the rest of them, and Anitra, Bruno's youngest daughter and his favorite. Temperamental herself...
...unfamiliar course. Then a chill fog enveloped him and his plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer near Deshler, Ohio, 50 mi. south of the Chicago-Cleveland airway, heard a plane roar over his roof. He heard a motor cut off. He heard a crash in his wood lot. He found Lieut. Lowry's mangled body in the wreckage of his ship...