Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Indenture. In Atlanta, a serviceman, asked for identification, pulled out his upper denture, exhibited name, rank, serial number, blood type and religion engraved on the shiny red roof...
...creamy tenor occasionally softens to a bedroom whisper, but usually it is roguish and rolling. As he sings, he twists and crumples a battered felt hat. That was how he began ten years ago in Paris' Bohemian cabaret Le Boeuf sur le Toit (The Ox on the Roof). Soon he was earning more on the radio and in the music halls than Chevalier. During the war he sang for French prisoners in Germany. He looks well-fed; as he explains it, "there is always a crust of bread for a good-looking...
...sidewalk farmers, who suppose that a ridgeling is the peak in a barn roof and a freemartin a species of swallow,*some of Gus's outbuildings and his hog runs might well give the jimjams. But Gus and Dale Kuester are among the best and most prosperous of Cass County farmers. Gus's homely barns and sheds are decisive outworks in the battle for food...
Financially speaking, it may soon be a simple matter to get a doctor in England. John Bull & family will stroll down to the "health center" in High Street, consult their own doctor, or dentist perhaps, among several practicing under one roof, pick up their neatly labeled prescriptions-and walk out without paying a single tuppence...
Bang-Up Blend. In Nylstroom, South Africa, a habitual smoker absently dropped a .22 cartridge into his tobacco pouch, later filled and lit his pipe, puffed contentedly until the pipe abruptly and noisily vanished, and a small round hole appeared in the roof...