Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verse eulogy to be framed on the wall. For celebrities and tourists alike, Tia Bates had an unbeatable formula: good American cooking, soft beds, plenty of hot water and a serene atmosphere. And when things went wrong or servants fouled up the serenity, the boss lady could raise the roof and cuss like a bucko mate...
...B.L.C., holstered by additional players and an All-American goalie, could give little opposition to a better conditioned and coordinated Crimson squad until Munro called on his tyro reserves. Then the roof fell in as the B.L.C. scored four goals in less than three minutes...
...L.P.O. outdoing themselves-and the Tannhäuser overture. By this time, the Albert Hall audience was applauding wildly-though whether from seeing a conductor who unabashedly scratched her bottom during the Haydn or from pure admiration of her musicianship, it was not yet apparent. But after a roof-raising Beethoven Fifth and a racing William Tell, there was no doubt about Gianella's acceptance. While Albert Hall stood and cheered, she took a bouquet and threw it flower by flower at her audience...
...Guiana, a region where on Christmas Day the temperature graciously drops to 104°, and where convicts can not only hire out but apparently never have to report back. The Messrs. Fixit of My 3 Angels are employed as roofers by a family in dire danger of having no roof over their heads: on the way from France is a snarling cousin, to oust papa from the business he has botched. Along with the cousin is his coldblooded nephew, who is jilting papa's daughter for an heiress...
...York City, which has more newspapers and magazines than any other U.S. city, has no press club where all newsmen gather. Instead, they meet in such restaurants as Bleeck's, Tim Costello's, et al., but never under a roof of their own. Last week New York newsmen got ready for their own club. The Overseas Press Club, made up of present and past foreign correspondents, took title to a handsome five-story building in midtown Manhattan (39th Street east of Fifth Avenue), plans to open the club next fall as a memorial to the 65 U.S. correspondents...