Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heeled throughout his career, spent three years in the Law School of the National University of Mexico and taught for a spell before he entered the theatre. Unlike most Mexican actors, he did not get to the top via carpas or tent shows, but started playing under a real roof. Today he makes $300 a week...
...London while Nazi bombers laid eggs on the outskirts, carrot-topped, bespectacled little Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker (Hearst's International News Service) danced with excitement on a roof in Fleet Street. But on Dover's cliffs a bomb fell three yards away from Cameraman James Gemmell (British Paramount News), gouged a crater 20 feet deep, failed to explode. Frank Butler (I. N. S.) was hit by falling machine-gun cartridge cases, unharmed...
...Grand Hotel, than it had been in France. They could sleep most nights, rise at 6:30, bathe & shave in time for the day's first air raids. One early-morning alarm caught a British photographer in his bath. Trailing a towel behind him. he ran to the roof, snapped his pictures...
...didn't work. Before the Civil War, the four big Shaker colonies had 6,000 members. Today there are about 75. Part of the colony at New Lebanon, N. Y., whose meeting house is supposed to be the only early building in the U. S. with a barrel roof, has been sold. The rest is for sale. But its dozen or so oldsters stay on. The sisters wear the bonnets, severe dresses and cloaks of their predecessors. Buxom Sister Lillian makes fine chairs. Frail, nearly toothless Elderess Sarah Collins, 85, putters among her souvenirs, cackles affably, with many...
...apparatus to prevent windstorms from taking off roofs by vacuum suction (a falling barometer switches on a motor which raises flaps on the roof, spoiling a possible vacuum...