Word: roost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which Navy officials investigated the most obviously fabricated reports of the plane's discovery. Somewhere in the corrugated deserts of the Pacific the ship floated, her men in a torment of thirst, staring at the horizon, or somewhere a mass of torn fabric and splintered wood served as a roost for gulls who waited for certain objects (which had sunk) to rise again. One or the other must be found. The ships, the planes, and the 18 destroyers, continued searching...
After the airplanes had returned home to roost, the light cruisers Carysfort, Caledon, Curacoa, Calliope and the destroyer Vectis pounded...
...Cock o' the Roost" at the St. James, light comedy by the author of "Little Old New York...
MEET THE WIFE?An affable little flutter into the realms of the agreeably henpecking wife who rules the roost and the roosters...
...living crippled, bed-ridden and penniless at a small inn near Aachen." Once she was a student under the great Wagner, once she thrilled thousands of German opera-goers-so much so that they were accused of making a goddess of her. Once Frau Rosa Luxemburg ruled the red roost at Communist headquarters in Berlin. She was killed in 1919. Frau Klara Zetkin succeeded her, but Klara became old, abdicated her power, went to Russia, her "spiritual home." The new leader is Frau Ruth Fischer, Vienna Jewess, onetime confidante of Bela Kun. She is described as "a woman with...