Word: tarpaulin
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...York City, a 56-mi. gale sang around the skyscrapers; knocked off the cover of a roof water tank showering a dozen women in the building's elevator; puffed out a truck's tarpaulin, overturning the truck; whisked a woman's hoarded wealth out of her petticoat pocket; blew a painter out of his saddle high up in the cables of Brooklyn Bridge; blew the S. S. Deutschland broadside against the head of a Hudson River pier; blew homebound Warren S. Coyle's automobile off the road into a stone wall in New Jersey, killing Coyle...
...Heave to!" radioed the Java to the mutineers. "Show a white tarpaulin on the awning deck. Surrender and abandon ship...
Near Alpine, N. J., police removed one David Testori from a narrow ledge on the Palisades 300 ft. above the river. He had lived there two months, with a tarpaulin cover, a newspaper bed. some bread and potatoes, a razor, a fish hook, a bank book showing deposits of $719. He said he was afraid of people in New York...
...Buffalo Mary Kascmarek, 2, was placed by some older children in a cardboard packing-case near the curb. Along came the garbage-wagon; the garbageman hoisted case, Mary Kascmarek & all, into the peccant swill. When the wind blew back his wagon tarpaulin, the garbageman discovered Mary Kascmarek, wiped her off, took her home...
...summer, swift motorboats cleave both Manhattan's broad grey Hudson River and narrow, oily East River. But unusual is the sight that Manhattanites had last week-a tarpaulin-covered motorboat left all night on a truck at a Park Avenue corner. Many another night and all day many another glistening, rivet-new motorboat was being carted through the streets. Gapers who followed these land-hauled boats found they were bound for Grand Central Palace, there to bask in blue and silver brilliance for the 25th (Silver Anniversary) New York Motorboat Show...