Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High in the gusty November sky, painting the top of the 165-ft. smokestack of the Wagner Brewery at Granite City, Ill., Steeplejack Bert Bareiter looked down and saw that the wind had fouled his hoist rope around a guy wire 60 ft. below. He climbed down hand over hand to untangle the rope. At this point occurred a horrifying industrial accident, followed by a notable act of industrial heroism...
...where a little refreshment soon raised heavy hearts to dwell on matters more pleasant than the football match. Soon into my party clothes and with F . . . to dine at Leverett. How the spirit of the navy has worked changes! Lighthouses in the Leverett windows and salty coils of rope dangling from the music platform. On with the dance till midnight curfew told us we were indeed yet in Boston and must still pay homage to the Puritan. Back in the tower, warm with the dance and warmer with the wine, to fall back and dream of operas and sports...
Just how long the authorities of the House will allow this rope to decorate the cherished tower is doubtful. For what the aerial lacks in beauty, is compensated for by the stark realism with which it strikes out against the horizon...
...tennist, Helen Jacobs has a game marked less by brilliance or speed of stroke than by steadiness and tactical skill. Her most dependable stroke is a forehand slice, taught her by Tilden. She places it with magnificent depth, tantalizing accuracy. She trains by skipping rope, drinks sherry, wears a hair net, uses little makeup, no red nail polish. She owns a Border terrier named Laetitia of Crendon, likes amusing socialites, has thus far shown no romantic interest in men. She plays bad ping pong. Helen Jacobs is not a Jew. She weighs 124 Ib. She walks with her feet pointing...
...Cannon relates wonders in the East which make the notorious rope trick (an illusion, according to him, produced by mass hypnotism) seem like small potatoes. Examples...