Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond is upon the horns of a dilemma. Logically speaking, he wants to sprawl upon some roof without many clothes, thereby absorbing the health-giving rays of Old Sol, or he wants to listen to a lecture every hour of the day. He cannot do both, hence .... And the only possible solutions he can think of would create philosophical or ethical fallacies. Political thought brings to mind arbitration Bask in the sun for an hour, then go to a lecture for an hour and so on. This presents no difficulties. Anywhere, probably the lecturers are suffering from the vacation...
Suddenly the earth under Managua rumbled and heaved. A 20-ft. stone wall swayed like an elephant's flank, crashed down on Commander Baske and Clerk Dickey, burying them completely. Lieut. Denham who was seven feet behind was felled but not killed by part of the roof. Meantime, screaming with terror, nearly 300 convicts plunged to their death from the yawning, tumbling cells...
...Commons. They tried to send her back to Leyden. She ran away. They washed their hands of her and she became more militant than ever. Four years later, helping a little band of sisters break up a Conservative meeting in an industrial town, Joyce was pursued to the roof of the auditorium, slipped, broke her neck. Six years later England granted women over 30 the right to vote and hold office; ten years after that, complete political equality...
Viewed from the roof of the Casa Granda, the winter of 1923 or 1924, an endless procession, all moving to this rhythm, the snaking of parties of gayly costumed boys and girls, single or double file. All on foot?and stepping. Roustabouts from the docks, cane cutters from the fields, women from the tenderloin, ragamuffins from everywhere, all swinging to the beat of that endless tune, to me then nameless. Groups of gleeful boy volunteers furnish the music. Home-made instruments?bongos of nail kegs or other kegs with ends knocked out or of hollowed log chunks, manacas, claves...
...definite in statement was Mr. Kurihara's very sage observation that: ". . . The market to be worth while on the opposite side of the deep valley will make the crest market, the sharp-witted traders will benefit for and the good-sized profit as from the basement to the roof will multiply for the small seed money and an occasion to pour a water over the sleeping ears...