Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pick-up station, which was set up on the airport, could just as well have been set up in a pasture, on a building roof or a hilltop, where towns without flying fields will have to set theirs. Between two 40-foot poles, 50 feet apart, stretched a rope with a mailbag attached to it. From the sky one of All-American's Stinsons, trailing a four-pronged hook from its belly on a cable, bore down and passed over the rope between the poles. Out of the Stinson tumbled a bag of Coatesville mail. Neatly, the dangling hook...
...ROPE OF GOLD-Josephine Herbst-Harcourt, Brace...
...Rope of Gold avoids the Depression, skips to 1933-1937, a period which has ruined even more novels than the Depression. Josephine Herbst, however, comes through solvent...
...episodic novel that sprawls all over the place (Pennsylvania, Michigan, South Dakota, New York, Cuba), Rope of Gold is equally prodigal with characters. The four main ones are an intellectual farm organizer and his wife; a rising automobile manufacturer; a union organizer in the automobile factory. The characters and the events are both much like those to be found in hackneyed left-wing novels. But Author Herbst is no propagandist; there are no revolutions around the corner; her characters move under their own power; their crises occur inside themselves instead of on picket lines...
Patrolman Appelby threw a rope to Burr from Weeks Bridge to attempt a "rescue," but Burr wanted to play...