Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Universal Newsreel's Cameraman Joseph Gibson endeavored to cover both the rooftop snipers and the soldiers blazing away below. Pitching his cinecamera on a hotel roof he started to grind. Soon Cameraman Gibson was out of action with four bullets through his legs. Friends bandaged him but soldiers burst in and tore the bandages off. "Those shots never came from our guns!" they announced after inspecting the wounds. "It was the Communists...
Three hours later, with smoke belching from the roof of the National Hotel and great breaches gaping in its walls, the officers ran up a flag of truce. As they marched out, laid down their arms and prepared to surrender, the soldiers suddenly opened fire, shot ten defenseless officers dead in their tracks. Thirty more dead officers were found in the hotel. While the living were roughly carted off to jail, their civilian sympathizers on housetops fired into the ranks of the soldier-captors, killed 20. Soon after the officers were imprisoned, the crack of rifle squads sounded grimly from...
...Sacramento, Calif, police found bedraggled Erwin Anderson, 4, sitting on the roof of the Anderson garage, his bloated tongue protruding from his mouth, clamped with two clothespins. They arrested his foster-mother, who said the clothespins were "a disciplinary measure...
...driver's toes. The seat flops back and a gas range appears. From an icebox which has handily sprung out of the vehicle's superstructure, Broadway Joe extracts the makings of a midnight snack, cutting the bread with a hatchet and finally nailing the sandwich to the roof. An escalator then lowers Mr. Cook to the stage where he relates at length the trip he has just made from Cripple Creek, Colo.-"a good night's work if I do say so." Unknown to him, Miss Ona Munson, a flaxen-haired soubrette with a childish uncertainty...
Without exaggeration it can be said that the Union is the social center of first-year life. Under one roof in its large dining hall, in its common rooms, its libraries, and its game rooms, there will take place as the year gets under way, the gradual integration of hundreds of new Harvard men from many parts of the world with highly diversified backgrounds and interests into another class unit. This is because it is in the Union rather than in the classrooms or on the athletic field that the men of 1937, those living at home as well...