Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offering publicly to highest bidders the Governorship of a Spanish province and all its seats in the Cortes, which he claimed to control. Last week Dastard March and the blameless Duquesa de Fernán Núñez were about equally scared. The Duchess stripped off her great rope of pearls, left it with Spanish frontier guards "for safe keeping," because otherwise they obstinately refused to permit Her Grace to flee to France...
...steadily pulling on a rope, Dr. Hantlig gently lifts the patient until his buttocks just clear the seat of the chair...
Judo performers wear trousers and jackets. Sumo wrestlers in action wear only a loin cloth and, for bravado, bits of stiff rope. Since weight and girth with which to crowd an adversary out of the ring count for more than muscle, sumo performers eat gigantic meals and occasionally reach monstrous proportions. Biggest among current sumo celebrities is Dewagatake who, a pygmy compared to oldtime sumo giants, stands 6 ft. 8 in., weighs 350 lb. His girth is only 3½ ft. to Champion Tama-nishiki...
...hath of late acquired a new machine which doth record voices and he did ask me to come and speak into it, which I did. But Lord! how much it did surprise me, for my voice doth sound more like the braying of an ass which doth need more rope, than what all these years I did presume my eloquence...
...tennis sensation. She won three important Eastern tournaments in a row, made herself the heroine of the U. S. Wightman Cup team by her victory over England's formidable "Kay" Stammers, received No. 2 ranking for the year without playing in the National Championships. Her training methods: rope skipping, calisthenics, roadwork like a prizefighter. Her reasons for turning professional: ". . . You have to polish trophies but not dollars, and I hate to shine silverware. . . . I'm looking for ward most to visiting New Orleans. . . . It's a rare privilege for a girl to play . . . across the net from...