Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other Syndicalist ladies were not so soft. While hundreds of frightened Barcelonians gathered for safety in the ancient Gothic cathedral, a gang of wild-eyed Amazons broke in, climbed high in the lantern over the West Front and began sniping at soldiers and police from the roof while Barcelona's sacred geese squawked horribly in the cloister...
...rock and rubble. Excavation was begun for the first building, an enormous "International Music Hall" which will cost $7,000,000 World's largest in capacity, it will seat some 6,500 spectators, will occupy the five floors of a 31-story office building whose set-backs and roof will be graced with pools and fountains, shrubs and hanging gardens. Spectacular pageants, routs and tableaux will be staged in its auditorium, but an effect of intimacy will be sought, it was announced, in the seating arrangements. Instead of a gallery there will be a series of three shallow mezzanines...
Delegates cheered. Spectators who had paid 25? admission looked puzzled. Some one started singing "The More We Get Together." Rain pattered down on the tent roof. After much debate the brand-new Liberty Party formed a national platform: 1) a five-year moratorium on all private debts, including mortgages; 2) free silver coinage at a 16-to-1 gold ratio; 3) government ownership of all banks; 4) government ownership of public utilities; 5) abolition of taxes; 6) unsecured paper currency. Out of the Liberty Party's platform was kept a "wild suggestion by a St. Louis statistician" that...
...Washington, 5 to o. C. St. Brideaux, three-year-old race horse owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: the Saratoga Handicap, feature at the opening of the Saratoga Springs, N. Y., race meeting. Two days prior, a violent wind, rain and thunder storm had carried away the roofs of two stables, part of the roof of Saratoga's Grand Union Hotel, felled hundreds of trees one of which came down on an auto belonging to George H. Bull, president of the Saratoga Association. ¶Temperamental, towheaded George Martin Lott Jr.: the Meadow Club Invitation Tennis Tournament, at Southamp...
...chairman is now Alfred William Erickson, although his chief interest is the advertising firm of McCann-Erickson. Inc. Vice Chairman is Baronet Nairn, jovial, bushy-mustached, fond of sports. With hat turned far down in front he drives to sporting events in a strange motor wagonette, scrambles onto its roof for a good view. He likes to go through factories notebook in hand. Congoleum-Nairn is thought of as a Morgan company in Wall Street but the connection is not apparent, may exist only in private stockholdings...