Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tossing the Fox film overboard in a sealed can, Captain George Fried of the George Washington, famed for his sea rescues, trailed it behind his ship. Circling around the ship Pilot Marion Grevenberg let down a grappling hook, grappled again & again until his rope broke...
...Since he beat Bee Ho Gray, outstanding pre-War roper, in 1916, he has been defeated only twice. Born in Illinois, he learned his profession in Oklahoma, perfected it by copying Will Rogers whom he admired at the St. Louis Fair in 1904. In return for advice about trick roping, he taught Will Rogers how to rope calves, became his close friend. Now 41, Roper Byers makes $15,000 in a good year, hopes to organize a school in Manhattan to teach policemen how to rope thugs...
...motion picture illustrating the manufacture of wire and wire rope and the construction of the cables of the George Washington bridge across the Hudson river, New York to New Jersey, will be shown Tuesday, October 23, at 7.30 P. M., in Room 110, Pierce Hall, under the auspices of the Harvard Engineering Society. The public is invited...
...Alexander marched with his entourage down the gangplank. Minister Barthou stepped forward, smiling. The two men shook hands, chatted a moment. Officials, aides, secret service men clustered around them thick as flies. The party moved toward a line of shining automobiles. Cheering hoarsely the crowd strained against the tight rope of police and troops. King and Minister stepped into the fourth automobile and the line moved forward. It happened then almost exactly as it had happened to Franz Ferdinand of Austria on a hot July day in 1914 in Alexander's Serbia. Quick as a squirrel a nondescript youth...
...Adams knows too much about history to singularize plural causes. Slavery, says he, was only a contributing factor in the widening divergences between North and South. Even in 1700 the antagonism between Massachusetts and South Carolina, "the two protagonists in our tragedy," was already latent. For the "rope of sand" that held the 13 colonies together was substituted a Constitutional chain of iron, which had to be tempered in blood before it was proved indissoluble. Historian Adams shows convincingly the inevitable drawing apart of agrarian South from industrial North, an incompatibility be coming more & more coherent. Just before the Civil...