Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantia's passenger list are resolved by maritime disaster. Written with one eye on Hollywood and the other on old newspaper clippings-incidents in the play suggest Sinclair Lewis, the Vestris sinking, Walter Winchell, and other topical importances-False Dreams, Farewell is a lively and engrossing one-roof melodrama, well acted, fast and full of obvious but persuasive tricks. Its most entertaining personage is Novelist Christopher Jarret whose wife is hideous and mercenary. When she accuses him of overenthusiasm in their conjugal relation, Jarret is amazed. "Look in the mirror," he says, "and tell me it is anything...
GERMAN SING-SONG: Lowell Roof, located in a delightful spot overlooking Mt. Auburn Street and the bright lights of Manter Hall. Gets rather raucous as the night waxes on. Good place to take a Radcliffe Girl, better than the Germanic Museum. If you can play a carrillon they will supply...
BOYLSTON HALL: Chinatown. Lots of transients gather here, and usually "bring their own." Chinese food unexcelled. Interesting monkey house on the roof...
...slithered Flying Officer F. Smith's plane, falling directly toward the Palace. To Airman Smith the royal standard fluttering on Buckingham's staff showed that the King-Emperor was in residence. By desperate maneuvers Flying Officer Smith was barely able to lift his plane over the Palace roof and miss the flagstaff by inches as spectators screamed and scattered. "God save the King!" gasped a pink-cheeked old lady in a black bonnet as Air man Smith disappeared, his backfiring motor carrying him over Marble Arch to plunk down safely in Hyde Park. Said the King, according...
...Hebrew schools on the top floor, a chapel, and general hall on the main floor, and in the collar were the kitchen, buttery, and food storage facilities. The apparatus and books were replaced by public contribution. An interesting and probable novel innovation for the new building was a lead roof to reduce fire hazard. It was this roof which, in 1776, was removed to furnish bullets for the Revolutionary Ordnance Department. The roof is reported to have weighed several tons...