Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealing with the mystery of the death of King Albert. . . . 'Albert did not die as the result of an 'alpine accident,' believe me, I know the facts. ... The story of Albert's death was issued in Belgium before he was dead. A man with a rope around his waist does not go climbing by himself. ... In other words he was tapped on the back of the head. . . . The facts are that King Albert was opposed to war. He would not play any part in the deviltry of France in conspiring for war against defenseless Germany...
Francis D. Moore '35, president of the defunct organization last night issued the following statement in reply to queries of metropolitan reporters: "It's the best thing for all of us, I worked my heart out on this sheet, but we were at the end of our rope. Our debts were increasing day by day and in spite of the issues that we have tried to capitalize on, we have been unable to meet our obligations...
...about ten feet long. To the bottom . . . I attached a light rope which I put through a pulley attached to a stone which served as an anchor. The pulley line was about 100 ft. long and was manipulated from the shore...
...masterpiece of verbal tight-rope walking. Criticism of the New Deal from conservative newspapers has been, for the most part, stupid and banal, taking the line that "traditional American ideals" are in danger. The doctor professed to take this as a legitimate danger; he indicated that he abhorred it, too, only--the danger was the other way around. That is to say, the real American ideals antedate the ideals of those who find their ideals endangered by the New Deal. It is confusing, of course. It can be made more delightfully confusing by saying that the democracy that Roosevelt democracy...
When in May 1869, on a bare shoulder of Utah the late great Leland Stanford swung a silver maul at a golden spike (which he missed), history was made. The fire bell in Sacramento rolled to the rope. The first of 220 cannon shots was fired on Fort Hill, San Francisco. A two-mile parade stumbled into step in Omaha. Decorations blazed from the wooden lamp posts of Chicago. The chimes-master of Trinity Church at the head of Wall Street in New York played "Old Hundred" on his clanking choir, and President U. S. Grant received a telegram reading...