Word: roped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...planes zoomed at 75 miles an hour Lieut. Harry Halverson aboard the Question Mark reached out, grabbed the hose, thrust it into the tanks. Once there was bungling. Gasoline was spilt. Major Carl Spatz, the commander, was burned. Lieut. Elwood Quesada was overcome by fumes. But later a swinging rope conveyed zinc oxide, balm for the Major. Lieut. Quesada, recovered, idled in his berth, read a magazine. Other ropes were swung, provided oranges, oatmeal, coffee. The larder of the Question Mark was stocked at the start with roast chicken...
...Cells, which Warden Lawes calls the Death House and which convicts call the Slaughter House, are carefully segregated from the other Sing Sing buildings. Every precaution is taken to prevent the condemned-to-death prisoner from committing suicide. He is clothed in materials that cannot be made into a rope; on his feet are felt slippers. His fingernails are pared twice a week; he gets no knife or fork with his meals...
...plane be fueled in the air. An initial experiment took place at Boiling Field, Washington, last week. While a trimotored Fokker army transport flew at 80 m. p. h., a light refueling plane hovered above her and pumped down gasoline and oil through hoses, dropped food with a rope. The preliminary test worked. So the Fokker and a refueling plane set out for Los Angeles where the break-down tests of men or motors will take place. The name of the Fokker is whimsically Question Mark...
...Circus Kid. When the greatest lion-tamer in the world started drinking, he got scared of the lions. One day the tight rope walker gave him back his nerve by indicating that she liked him. The night he was to make his comeback, he saw her kissing the other lion-tamer. Later, drunk, he was mortally wounded rescuing his rival from a hungry lion and died with his head in the tight-rope walker's lap. Not new, not dull, not convincing, not unconvincing...
...American climber. This cliff has the longest sheer drop on the mountain--perhaps 1,000 feet. The older guide who ranked as the second best in Chamonix led the way while the two less experienced climbers followed. It was the duty of the younger guide to 'belay' the rope to a rock while the older guide ascended to the next ledge or resting place. This he did by taking a turn of the line around a rock. In one instance while the leader was ascending, the rope kept paying out as it should and the guide disappeared out of sight...