Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppose," Poetess Naidu will say fondly of her father, "that in the whole of India there were more than a few men of greater learning or more greatly beloved. He had a great white beard and the profile of Homer and a laugh that brought the roof down. He wasted all his money on two objects: to help others and alchemy. He held huge courts every day in his garden and entertained all the learned men of all religions, rajas and beggars, saints and downright villains, all delightfully mixed up and all treated as one. And then his alchemy...
...MacMurray, Hood and Faulihour are the architects who have designed the Rockefeller project. It consists of eight separate units, staggered to admit maximum air and sunlight, all of which are connected by an underground level. A theatre and Opera House accommodating almost 6,000 people, and six acres of roof garden are novel features of the construction, which is now going on between Fifth and Sixth Avenue and Forty-eighth and Fiftieth Streets. Photographs show excavation proceeding at night and a rivet heater. In the interior scenes shadows flicker and flare with Hogarthian exaggeration...
...salmon with grizzly bears. Finns catch turbot with horses. Unlike cormorants and bears, Finnish horses do not actually catch the fish, nor are they used for bait. In winter Finnish fishermen use plodding draft horses to haul away their heavy loads of fish from the holes chopped in the roof of the Baltic...
...avenge Constable King. Albert Johnson had used the interval to turn his hut into a blockhouse. He had dug the dirt floor out to a depth of four feet, cut loopholes at the floor level. For 15 hours Albert Johnson held off the Mounties. Hand grenades blew the roof off his hut. Albert Johnson retired, like an angry woodchuck stern foremost into a dugout, kept fighting. The police retired, disgruntled...
...Harold Murray does most of the singing, assisted by taffy-haired Katherine Carrington, a lovely theatrical newcomer with a mouth like a D on its back. Irving Berlin (Israel Baline) appears to have reopened a few old scores for his music, but "A Roof in Manhattan" is memorably tuneful...