Word: verandas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...built 1931 model Ford back & forth: down to the pools every morning for his health swim, back for lunch, out again in the afternoon. Passing the golf links he occasionally stopped to jibe at newshawks at play. Passing their cottage where a sore-muscled group was lounging on the veranda he shouted: ''How are the cripples this morning?" and drove on roaring at his own joke. Also he took the first good afternoon to drive out to his 2,500-acre farm where he learned from Manager Otis Moore that the corn crop had been...
Franklin Roosevelt last week looked for the first time on a long colonial building with a low veranda and a row of white-washed trees on its broad, flat lawn. Not for lack of invitations had he never before visited the Jefferson Islands Club in Chesapeake Bay. The founders of this sporting organization include some of the most famed Democrats in the land: Owen D. Young, John W. Davis, John J. Raskob, Senators Pittman. Tydings, Robinson. Logically they might have expected a Democratic President who liked outdoor fun to drop in upon them often. If they ever so expected they...
Under a flagstone walk the searchers found a metal box containing some $9,000 of the Fall River robbery cash, plus a sugar bag crammed with nickels. On the walls of the hidden vault they found stains which looked like blood. From under the veranda they raked some bones which they thought were human. Under the kitchen floor they found $10,000 more of the Fall River money...
...crime addicts, much of the grue went out of the case when a State chemist reported that the vault stains had not been made by blood, that the bones were from roast beef and had probably been dragged under the veranda...
...abundant, with German dishes a specialty. All cabins were amidships, all had hot & cold running water, nearly all were outside, none had more than two beds. Just as on big ships, passengers could dance, play deck games, swim in a canvas pool, lounge in the smoking-room, bar, library, veranda cafe...