Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, to comfort his only son, widowed Patrolman Joseph McReddy bought a canary to replace the son's pet Chip which had died while the son was at school. The new bird escaped out the window. Father McReddy rushed to the tenement house roof, fell off the fire escape. When son McReddy came home he found his father dead as well as his canary...
Once, while being held in a jail, he tried to poison himself. The second night he was placed in the sweatbox followed his fourth break for freedom. He was not wearing the barrel, but his neck was chained to the roof. His feet were nailed down in heavy stocks. When he was found dead a justice of the peace directed that there be no inquest. The Press stirred up a fury of public indignation over the affair. County Detective Gasque investigated. Murder indictments were returned against Acting Guard Captain George W. Courson, a 285-lb. hulker, and Solomon Higginbotham...
...looked up." said one witness, "and I saw what looked like a burning log hurtling through the air. It landed on the roof of the building and bounded to the street...
...should want them. But "Copey" is 72 now, the Yard is noisy, the stairs harder to climb than they used to be. For the past two years his doctor has been urging him to move to an apartment where meals could be prepared for him under his own roof...
Sixteen Augusts ago a California blunder cost Charles Evans Hughes the Presidency. On the eve of a hot Republican primary he carried his campaign into the State where Governor Hiram Johnson was seeking a Senate nomination. Though for hours they were under the same hotel roof at Long Beach, Nominee Hughes and the Governor did not meet. Johnsonites were infuriated at what they called Nominee Hughes's deliberate snub to their candidate. In November Governor Johnson was duly elected to the Senate?but California went Democratic with just enough electoral votes to keep Woodrow Wilson in the White House another...