Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe's perennial Men of the Years, Stanley Baldwin, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Kamal Ataturk and Dr. Eduard Benes held undiminished sway. The outstanding exhibition of the century in French political tight-rope walking was given in 1935 but as the year entered its last hours the fate of Premier Pierre Laval, 1931'S Man of the Year, continued to tiptoe (see p. 18). In Asia practical control of North China was obtained by Japan in 1935 so adroitly and inconspicuously that it was a major Japanese triumph to have avoided producing...
...Opera routine: At the premiere of the opera company a full symphony orchestra attempts to render Il Trovatore while the brothers run mad, trying to break up the performance so as to get the lead for Ricardo, climbing in the flies of the opera house and swinging from rope to rope so that wild pieces of scenery appear behind the singers. As a climax Groucho substitutes plebeian music on the racks, causing the orchestra at a turn of the score-page to swing from Trovatore into Take Me Out to the Ball Game while Groucho enters down the aisle, selling...
...lariat" in St Louis, Buster Estes, of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Post No. 43, used an ordinary sash cord seldom missed. Madame Schumann-Hemk held her hands up as he approached laughingly said, "No, no, no, no." He obligingly refrained. Many a youngster ran along at his side cried, "Rope me, mister." Most of them were gleefully satisfied...
...Normandie churned slowly up New York harbor last week on her final crossing for 1935, many a passenger gawped upward into the French Liner's rigging at one Chrysis de la Grange, a shapely girl who calls herself the world's champion twist rope acrobat, was busy proving it in a bathing suit for publicity purposes. Among the gawpers was another publicity-minded person, fubsy, pink-chopped, little Harold Keates Hales, Member of Parliament who has achieved his place in the sun not by cavorting on a rope but by donating the Hales Blue Ribbon Trophy for transatlantic...
...been reached. Everything good is questionable; and the bad is not bad enough. We live in an age of debunkment. In athletics, a golden crown has replaced the laurel wreath; the stage is obscene; art is acrobatic; music is barbaric; institutions are enslaving; life is a long slippery rope with a noose...