Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slow, soft breathing of 250 infirm old men and women asleep one night last week in the Pittsburgh dormitories of the Little Sisters of the Poor suddenly broke off into gags, coughs, smoke-stifled cries. Fire billowed up through the peaked roof of the Catholic home. Its glare lighted wrinkled faces twisted with fear and despair. Crippled old men thumped their canes on the floor for help. Aged women forgot their slippers and wrappers as the black-robed nuns herded them into a crawling, shuffling line down the rickety fire escapes. Querulous prayers rose in the darkness to blend with...
...side, knelt also as he saw the flickering blob of grey light. It was the Holy Virgin and Child! Crowds gathered in front of the building, swarmed into the yard of a Dr. J. J. Stoll, trampled his flowerbed and broke down his fence. They climbed on the roof of his garage; it caved in but they did not care, so exciting was the miracle...
...commit suicide by: throwing himself under a train (but was prevented); shooting himself in the head (but the pistol failed); asphyxiation (but relatives broke in); drowning (but he was hauled out of the river); hanging (but he was cut down), made one more attempt. He climbed to the roof of his house, jumped off, died of heart failure...
...married Mrs. Margaret A. Schulze, daughter of the late Mining- Tycoon William Boyce Thompson whose estate was valued at $85,000,000. Most prominent of Mr. Biddle's business ventures has been the development of Manhattan's Central Park Casino. He has also backed the St. Regis Roof, smart dance-floor atop the Duke-controlled Hotel St. Regis, Manhattan...
...that if & when he goes to London to confer with Prime Minister MacDonald he does not want to stay at Hampstead's Indian Hostel as expected, but at her settlement house. Reporters found Kingsley Hall very clean and neat, smelling slightly of disinfectant. It has a large flat roof from which St. Gandhi may survey the squalid East End, and a large bronze bell, presented by white-whiskered First Commissioner of Works George Lansbury...