Word: roped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...torture of immemorial antiquity, performed by the ancient Greeks with the aid of a rope knotted about the brow, beneath which a stick was inserted and turned end over end, thus tightening the rope. Classical writers have noted that the eyes of the victim bulged from their sockets as the torture proceeded...
...slowing up Miss Palm Beach by a split second. Crash went Baby Gar VII into Miss Palm Beach, throwing overboard her own pilot, George Wood, brother of Gar. With her motors roaring, Baby Gar VII churned round in a circle, her rudder jammed hard over. George Wood caught a rope dragging from her, climbed aboard, cut the spark. Then Baby Gar VII sank under...
...worthless enough triumph. It meant exactly nothing as an indication of how the Chamber would vote the next day or the next week. It was one more step along the political tight-rope without falling. M. Briand relaxed over the weekend, snored thankfully during such leisure moments as he could snatch...
...Sainted Mother Marie." A strapping Italian youth enacted the role of Mme. Mesmin, the notorious "Sainted Mother Marie," chief flagellant of the Sadistic order of Notre Dame Des Pleurs, which has flourished for 21 years at Bordeaux, France. Attired in a "mother hubbard" and brandishing a knotted rope end, he led the ballet of 20 young men similarly costumed, with their lips painted, their cheeks rouged, their eyebrows plucked...
Kites. In Manhattan, Dr. Miller Reese Hutchison, for 16 years chief engineer of Thomas Alva Edison, suggested that all steamships carry kites for rescue work in seas too heavy for lifeboats and Lyle (rope-shooting) guns. The kite could be flown over the distressed ship, line, rope and finally a heavy cable being attached to its string. The cable would drag in the water, be towed to its destination. Then the breeches buoy could be used...