Word: stairway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were at the gates. An airplane droned overhead. Death came for the rioters across the yard, up into the cell block, past the barricades which they had piled up with mattresses, chairs, beds at corners where they could shoot down a corridor two ways and back up to a stairway. Troopers told a convict named Johnson, who was helping them, to pull a mattress off a barricade. A bullet stopped Johnson when he took his first step. A bullet stopped Captain Bruton of the guards. On the top floor there were six rebels left. Troopers brought machine guns into position...
...born John Richard Voorhis, scion of an old Dutch family. At the age of one he was taken to Manhattan, to the village that was Greenwich Village. He sat on his great-grandfather's knee, heard eyewitness stories of the Revolution. He became a carpenter, built a mahogany stairway for Citizen A. T. Stewart's store (now Wanamakers...
...Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus; he wore too the Cross of Malta and Collar of the Annunziata, which gives its wearer the right to call Italy's King "cousin." Arrayed in such dignity but brusque as ever, Benito Mussolini last week strode up the marble stairway that leads to the damasked Hall of Congregations in the Vatican.* In his pocket was a Bank of Italy check for 750 million lire ($39,225,000) and a certificate for one billion lire ($52,300,000) of Italian State bonds. In the Hall of Congregations, standing beneath an exquisite ivory crucifix...
Fire ladders were extended to the roof. The firemen looked down through the broken skylight on a stairway filled with a mass of struggling bodies, arms and legs twisted and intertangled. Screams and shrieks of agony arose. The rescuers broke their way in from the roof. More than 16 bodies blocked the stairway. Only one, that of a doctor, seemed alive. He was removed first but died in a hospital...
Some 500 Democratic politicians of Manhattan last week packed into their new Tammany Hall on Union Square. For 90 minutes they milled anxiously through the reception room, the ballrooms, chewing cigars, shaking heads, muttering. Suddenly a door opened at the head of a narrow iron stairway. A man appeared and yelled out: "Curry!" Loud and long did the Tammany leaders cheer. There were free drinks that night in many a downtown speakeasy...