Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With him were his mistress, Irma Zwiestlbauer, and a small child. Clerk Knop was determined to die and he did not care in what company. He set off a bomb of ecrasite, an Austrian shell explosive. Besides gratifying Knop's desire it split the hotel from basement to roof, blew out the front of four stories sent 180-ft. streamers of flame into the air, injured 80 and gave Knop, mistress & child the company of four strangers in Death. That same night in Zubrohlava peasants were about to leave church when a thunderstorm came up, herded them back inside...
...forgotten painter named Massman. In 1931 the McFarlane heirs gave the sorry pile to Denver University as a landmark of Colorado's brawling past, past enough for Coloradoans to be proud of. But the University could not afford to repair the vast, draughty stage, prop up the collapsing roof. To the rescue came Denver's able, elderly Art Patron Ann Evans, socialite president of Evans Investment Co., daughter of Colorado's second territorial Governor, John Evans. She soon made Central City a Denver socialite fad. To rebuild the Opera House she sold its original 750 broad-bottomed...
...train lurches and grinds forward. The night before the Vagabond sat in a little room up under the roof smoking meditatively and wondering at the beauty of a girl's profile against a shaded lamp. She was reading Eleanor Wylie's poetry half aloud. Her lips were wet, and the dampness in the air wove her black hair into ringlets. Outside silver rain was falling softly through the blackness in Bay State Road, and the poplars were glad for the rain...
Died. Kenneth McKenzie, 22, University of Southern California javelin thrower; of freezing and crushing when he, exploring an ice cave with his fiancée, her mother and sister, was caught in a fall of snow & ice from the roof; in Sequoia National Forest, Calif...
...occasion the roof garden of the Building will be decorated with lanterns and foliage, and tables will be set up for those who desire to play bridge. Punch and refreshment will be served out of doors. At midnight, a sample CRIMSON will be set up and printed in the basement, and any items by guests submitted will be used. Tickets may be purchased at $1 each at the building during the week, at the Crimson desk in Sever Hall or at the door...