Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarreled with the General about NRA hardships on small businessmen. "Military man that he was," grumbled old Clarence Darrow, whose three NRA reports marked the start of the reorganization movement, "he went at it like an Army mule driver and when he reached the end of his rope and he realized that the people were about to rise in revolt, he resigned. A very shrewd man!" Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, the Pennsylvania Governor's lady who thought of General Johnson as a Wall Street strikebreaker, crowed: "I told...
When she attended a Manhattan high school, Jean Arthur's ambition was to become a tight-rope walker. She got a job as a photographer's model. When a Fox scout saw her picture he arranged a screen test, then a contract. At 15, Jean Arthur went to Hollywood, acted in cinema for nine years, made her stage debut in 1932 as a Hungarian peasant in. Foreign Affairs. Since then she has appeared in The Curtain Rises, Virtuous Husbands, The Man Who Reclaimed His Head...
...foot cliff which the party scaled last year. At this point a two-day snow storm drove the party back and kept them in the high camp until the morning of the nineteenth. They left, however, before turning back at the foot of the cliff, crampons, rope, and other climbing supplies to be used as soon as the storm broke. It cleared the night of the 18th and by making another midnight start the party was again at the base of the cliff by 4 o'clock that morning...
...ascent of the face was made under very bad ice conditions, but with the assistance of 1000 feet of fixed rope the party at last reached the summit in three ropes of two each. Once on the plateau at the top of the cliff Washburn and Carter decided to make a rush for the summit without waiting for the last rope which had fallen behind due to heavy packs of willow wands and miscellaneous supplies. They left with 35 pounds of climbing rope and extra clothing but no food except for two bars of chocolate. By 11 o'clock...
...days later however, another attempt in order to get photographs was made, this time with Holcombe also on the Washburn Carter rope. The summit was reached again, but this time in the most perfect weather conditions and many pictures were taken...