Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pulling the shade clown and soaping the window to no effect; a mirror placed against the pane, so that he got a good full view of himself, excited him neither more nor less. Unlike the Kansas City robin (TIME, March 27) he had no mate in evidence. On the roof just over the window was a half-finished nest with a pile of unused material beside it. We had a theory that in the spring when the house was building, the mate had been caught and died inside, and that the cock robin was obsessed with the thought of getting...
...Brooklyn, Patrolman Thomas Erwin strolled down Fifth Avenue at midnight, saw two men shin up an elevated pillar, climb to the roof of a delicatessen store. Following, Sleuth Erwin found the two removing panes of glass from the roof's skylight, arrested one, missed the other. In court, Climber Luciani Perlizzi, 21, explained that he had a girl, that she was bringing a "blind date" (unknown girl) for his companion, that his companion insisted on seeing her first...
Because his Farmer office was always littered with samples of seed corn, that publication's new Des Moines building was made mouse-proof throughout. On its roof Henry Wallace plays badminton with Managing Editor Donald Murphy. In Washington he walks three miles to his office before 8 a. m., lunches at his desk, goes home after 6 p. m. Summers he climbs Pikes Peak in a bee line...
...remembered, also dated the end, of an epoch at 1870. In the closing sections, he calls up a picture of (old) Charlie Marx, wordless and forbidding, just beginning to cast his lengthened shadow, seen alike by the idle aristocrat and by the workingman. The Philistines, dancing upon the roof at Gaza, were evidently not more ill-fated than the joyous throngs who idled down the years after the first Versailles, unconscious that their house was tottering to its final destruction...
Harvard men are superstitious. Yesterday a crew of carpenters engaged in repairing the roof of Wigglesworth Hall left a ladder leaning against the wall of the building in such a way that it slanted completely across the main path to the Union...