Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phelpses were saved. "Govvie" jumped off the stern, found a dangling rope, clung to it for six hours. Said he afterward: "I had to watch women I'd met and danced with drop off one by one and hear their desperate and familiar voices pleading. Finally there was a perfect rain of people. A hundred or more came leaping over the side to escape a sudden burst of flames. They hit one another in the descent. Many sank like stones...
...same time abdicated from the New Yorker, his contract having expired. In his debut as a Hearstling the Little King romped gaily in color through a page of ten drawings, in which he was depicted as entertaining his assembled subjects with an impromptu performance on a tight rope...
...Hide-Out (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Four years ago, gangsters in the cinema were wicked and incorrigible. They beat their women, shot policemen, smuggled rum and ended their careers at the end of a rope or in the gutter. Due to the combined efforts of the Hays organization and Damon Runyon, whose stories have set a new screen fashion, this is no longer true. Lately cinema racketeers have been gentlemen, masquerading sheepishly in wolves' clothes. In Lady for a Day, Little Miss Marker and Midnight Alibi, the heroes were mollycoddle outlaws whose better natures were aroused by old ladies...
...years after the War Captain Nicholas Coventry with his little daughter Lizzie knocks about the continent living on his wits. At the end of his rope, down & out, he decides to retire to the bosom of his family, peacefully dwelling in a London suburb. The family consists of solid citizens, wives, husbands, children, to whom the clever, worldlv-wise Nicholas is an adventure. Nicholas soon discovers that there are good pickings. Brother-in-law Charles, devoted husband and father, is an easy mark for Nicholas' charm. The Black Sheep finds it convenient to help himself to money and valuable articles...
...into a realm which properly belongs to Shakespeare, Shaw and history, Cleopatra is important for two reasons. One of the most expensive pictures of the year, it will probably clear all expenses. It is the 60th work of the only director in Hollywood who managed to walk the tight rope from silent to sound films without losing his megaphone or his mannerisms...