Word: turreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lease, but would at the same time look about for a safer location with no river underneath. At that time he did not know that the building was to be sold over his head. A huge sign reading "For Sale" appeared on the Bow Street side of the turret late in the afternoon, and soon attracted a crowd...
Returning from business at five-thirty yesterday afternoon, my road leading me by the Lampoon Building. I was surprised to notice a for sale sign hung before Lampy's famous turret. You can understand my surprise when I tell you that as a former editor of the Lampoon no hint or rumor had reached my ears of the impending financial disaster which has overtaken this ancient comic paper...
...butler belongs the cellar and butteries, and all from thenceforth to the farthest end of the south porch; to the cook the kitchen, larder, and the way leading to the hatch, the turret, and the north alley unto the walk; neither shall the butler or cook suffer any scholar or scholars whatever, except the Fellows, Masters of Art, fellow commoners, or, officers of the House, to come into the butteries or kitchen, save with their parents or guardians, or with some grave and sober strangers; and, if any shall presume to thrust in, they shall have three pence on their...
...Lucky Horseshoe. Tom Mix's first picture since his European vacation has suffered little from Continental exposure. Mr. Mix is still the manliest of the cowboys; still the castle which boys build in dreams. As an added turret he has Ann Pennington, erstwhile spriest dancer of many a Ziegfeld Follies...
...guns of the dreadnought Duilio were booming and belching smoke, fire and steel. In the turret, a boom and a belch sounded above the rest: a 305-millimetre* gun had blown up: 7 were killed, 30 wounded. The ship immediately caught fire. The magazines were flooded as a precautionary measure but the fire was extinguished before irreparable damage was caused. The accident was due to a backfire into an imperfectly closed breach...