Word: hempen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the terms of orders emanating from University Hall all upper-story residents of "non-fireproof halls" are to appear to get instruction from the University Safety Patrol on how to undulate down the side of a buildings on hempen strands with flames flicking from windows enroute. The order fixes specific compulsory times for attendance but stresses that more precocious Yardlings will be permitted to put in extra time hanging around on the cables...
...bandy-legged grand piano. Love's Tribute and Love's Stratagem leaned in steel engraving against a parlor wall. There were objects nobody could explain, such as a waisthigh, samovar-like receptacle of tarnished silverplate sporting an impudent spiggot. There were even sales tickets on the coiled hempen ropes down which no one had ever had to make a fire escape...