Word: roped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soldiers Field became a children's playground yesterday morning when the University football candidates reverted to their childhood and skipped rope again. Such is the training prescribed by Donovan and Fisher to get the men in shape for the vigorous practices next week...
...lithium water, then the hypnotic wave made classic in Trilby and finally dooms modern psychoanalysis to the same neglect into which both the previous obsessions have fallen. Cures associated with superstition are also mentioned. Even in the 19th Century a peculiar efficacy was supposed to attach to the rope which had hanged...
...Rally in which more than 3000 are expected to participate, will be held. The rally will contain many novel features, a wall-scaling race by eight teams from various parts of Boston and Massachusetts, and a bridge building exhibition in which Troop 39 of Dorchester will construct out of rope and wood a bridge and dismantle it again, in 25 minutes. Several sea scouting activities will also be demonstrated...
...German Professor, father of the girl, cames up panting: " Let him be tried by law." They reach the bridgehead. The leader calls for a stouter rope. Delay. The Negro whines: " Mister, before God, I'm innocent. That other nigger told me he did it. I would not die with a lie in my throat." The stouter rope is found, and one end is fastened carefully about the Negro's neck. He is is thrust along the bridge. The other end of the rope is fastened to the bridge...
...nine the next morning balloting began. Excitement ran high. The 1.800 delegates in their eagerness to vote broke through the rope that held them back. Policemen and firemen were summoned to restore order. At eight in the evening the polls closed. At eleven the count was not completed and the convention adjourned till the following day at ten a.m. The tellers were closeted counting the ballots till the early hours of the morning. Gradually news leaked out that Mrs. Cook was ahead...