Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Senator La Follette and Governor Schmedeman sitting on the platform be hind him at Green Bay, the President with the grace of a tight-rope walker ringingly declared...
...midnight, the boat, which had been towed approximately 200 miles in two and a half days, was 60 mi. off Liverpool and Angler Howell realized that it was practically standing still. He reeled in his tuna slowly until it was close enough to gaff. Then began a battle to rope the tuna's tail...
Last week Kohler was ablaze with gorgeous hollyhocks and its first serious labor trouble. Upwards of 1,000 pickets, holding their line with a stout rope, marched up & down before the main entrance of the Kohler plant. Within 200 nonstriking employes were kept prisoner. No one was allowed to enter, no one to leave-except Mr. Kohler of Kohler. He drove up in one of his four Lincolns. strode, white-faced and grim-jawed, to the picket line, boldly lifted the pickets' rope and went in to a chorus of jeers...
...staff of 20 exhibition drivers. Oldest car in the race was an 1896 Tallyho made by the Chicago Vehicle Co., which had not been moved for 34 years. Others in the field of 13 were an 1897 Stanley Steamer, a chain-drive International, a 1904 one-cylinder Cadillac, a rope-drive 1902 Holsman, a 1902 Lincoln truck-roadster, a 1907 Staver roadster with hard tires on its buggy wheels, a 1906 Model N Ford, a 1908 Maxwell driven to the Fair by its owner. The cars had been lent by the Fair pageant Wings of a Century. The race...
...Orleans declared: "I have dedicated my life to the extermination of Huey Long md all his kind from politics. I am not here to talk, but to listen to what you want me to do." "If it is necessary to teach them decency at the end of a hempen rope," cried Mayor George W. Hardy Jr. of Shreveport, "I, for one, am willing to swing the rope!" Adjourning with the angry cry that the next time they returned to the State capital it would be with pistols, the crowd went home to organize a Statewide body of anti-Long vigilantes...