Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officer then retired. With the help of his own guards he tore the gibbering black from his cell. Warner clung to the bars, to the railings of stairs, to doors, to the ground, to people, to anything he could lay his bleeding hands on. At the end of a rope he was hoisted into a tree. His gasoline-soaked clothing was touched into flame which cast an ugly glow upon the faces of a mob of 7,000 men, women & children...
...went out to my father's ranch . . . and got some rope for the hanging. Then I went all over the town in my flivver roadster and passed out the word: 'We're going to have a lynching at the jail at 11 o'clock tonight.' . . . Mostly I went to the speakeasies and rounded up the gang there. That is why so many of the mob were drunk...
...Then Bonfils hired Claire Windsor to stand back of the counter in the Post Building and present each advertiser with a cabbage. The result was a Sunday paper of one hundred and forty six pages, sixty of which carried nothing but classified advertisements. And when the Post hired tight rope walkers to attract Denver to its office, and shunted fifty old automobiles down a mountain while barkers gave their leather lungs to Bonfils' glory, victory was assured...
TIME neglected any mention of the splendid entertainment at Anacacho Ranch, the beautiful estate of Ralph W. Morrison 50 miles from the Mexican border. It was here that Will Rogers put on a real rope-twirling show:, taking a glass out of Amon Carter's hand and throwing Airman Vidal and Treasury-man Roberts, two former football stars. Here also Jim Farley rode a horse for the first time, he said, in his life, getting on with some difficulty while a secretary held his watch. Will Rogers rode the same horse, Edna May's King, retired undefeated champion...
Kate Smith leads the mammoth stage attraction and is ably supported by a person who knows some very interesting tricks with a rope. Don't be discouraged if he fails once or twice. He did it yesterday...