Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surprise. In Arkansas City, Kans., Realtor R. D. Anderson found that one of his vacant houses had been repainted, repapered, given new plumbing and a new roof by a buyer who had gone to the wrong address...
...complete has been the building's protective insurance that the hurricane of 1936, which tore off a part of the roof, did not eat into the life-giving fund, for among the policies was one which covered all damage caused by hurricane...
Opera is fantastically expensive to mount. Like a department store, it combines many things under one roof: symphony orchestra, vocal stars, theater, ballet, chorus. The expense ($6,500 to $13,000 a performance) necessitates high-priced tickets (a $7.70 top last year). Even so the Met must average an 88% full house to break even...
...whether is a Chicago style, but Davison's six-piece combo plays differently than Scabby Lewis at the Savoy, and differently than Red Allen or Frankic Newton, whose bands were recently in Boston. They play old Dixieland tunes like "Fidgety Feet" and "Oh Baby," and blow the roof off in the process. But you don't mind the plaster falling all around you. Not when Davison plays cornet out of the side of his mouth, with's wonderful husky flavor like Berigan or Spanier. Not when PeeWee chortles his notes sometimes with an amazingly dirty tone and sometimes with...
...extremely odd coincidence, this roof-blowing work formed the decor of a quiet library reading room...