Word: roped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon last week at Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.), a fringe of people stood behind a hemp rope. A soldier passed down the line proffering a roll of cotton batting. The people were advised to stuff bits of the cotton into their ears, stand on their toes, gape their mouths. A moment later there broke forth from eight sinister-nosed 75mm. anti-aircraft guns a maddening, vicious cacaphony that made trouser-legs tremble and skirts sway in waves of force. High in the bright ceiling, some 2,000 ft. above, innocent bits of cotton appeared, no bigger than those...
When George Herman Ruth was seriously ill in a hospital, his signed stories continued to appear daily. Mr. Broun advances an explanation that had been given him by famed Sports-scribe W. O. McGeehan: "That the Babe escaped from his cot each night by means of a rope made of knotted sheets and staggered to the telegraph office with his copy...
...class. Because of this rule Thomas Loughran was no longer light-heavyweight champion of the world when he climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium to fight Jack Sharkey (Josef Cukoschary) of Boston. In the third round Sharkey ran out of his corner and forced Loughran against the ropes and hit him high on the jaw. Loughran sat down. Five seconds later he got up and began to walk along the side of the ring, holding onto the top rope, and feeling his mouth with his glove. Something about his attitude suddenly gave the people at the ringside...
Superbly played, this saucy fairy tale by Preston Sturges is continuously gay. It is the season's first smash-hit, by a margin of one night over Rope's End (see below...
...Rope's End. A malevolent scent pervades the theatre wherein this play is exhibited. Perhaps it really exists. More likely it is imaginary, for the audience observes such diseased events as render the senses unreliable. The play and its players have chilled London for several months with their tale of two Oxford undergraduates (Sebastian Shaw and Ivan Brandt) who divert themselves by strangling a happy classmate and serving dinner on the carven chest which contains his corpse. Among their guests are the father and aunt of the deceased. Also present is Rupert Cadell (Ernest Milton), a cynical, orchidaceous poet...