Word: pulleyed
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...time of Tutankhamen's exhumation in Egypt, striking versions of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, together with emissaries from the Powers-not omitting the heavenly, for an angel descended blithely by pulley and wire from a third-story window, entered the Cambridge market square and there, from the subterranean public mictuary, resurrected a cigar store Indian, one Phineas...
...bands playing, revelry-to signalize the opening of a tunnel through the nearby Rocky Mountains (see p. 9). Dance halls threw themselves open. Radio reported a Manhattan prizefight (Delaney-Maloney, see p. 27) and "as a special feature" a death dive -a man hanging by his teeth to a pulley, sliding down a wire from the Post's roof to the street...
...glass. Standing so, he had taken hold of the grips, connected to elastic cords, on which he did his daily exercises. He was a great one for physical culture, was he not? Well, and then he slipped off the stool, and the rope had caught in the pulley, and the grips, crossed in front of his neck in the mummery of some exercise, had locked fast, keeping him from...
...Scattergood is a business man and was president of the American Pulley Company from...
...choice selections from Broadway's repertoire of ragtime, pathos and humor; William Moran and Al Wiser proved that they were not only good jugglers but also adept comedians; the "Glorias" charmed their audience with their clever interpretation of pantomine and fancy ball-room dancing; while "Permane and Shelly" in "Pulley-Pulley" turned the tables on their audience, proving to be clever musicians and not acrobats...