Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate of 100,000 a day, visitors from all over the Midwest were packing into Detroit's chromium-pillared Convention Hall last week. There was an automobile assembly line. Tight-rope walkers and acrobats performed from time to time. More than 175 companies allied to the automobile business had displays. There was a series of automobiles beginning with a steam-driven model of 1863 and ending with a super-streamlined car by Briggs Manufacturing Co. which, lacking running boards, comfortably accommodated three people on its wide front seat. Lean old Henry Ford, who never exhibits his cars with other...
...facilities are open to all Freshmen, but we alone are constantly within banister distance of them. Who but us can sleep till 8.28 A.M. and still reach our orange-juice before the grim-faced guardian of the portal bars the way with her flimsy-looking but entirely effective plush rope...
...year-old husband, a rickety old man with wens on his face, remarked: "She's all right now, I guess. . . . I guess they did a pretty good job." Near Philadelphia their son, William Denston, a motorcycle policeman of Lower Merion Township, showed reporters a piece of rope. "Yes," he said, "I was there. I'm satisfied." Said the sheriff of Somerset County: "Investigation? Oh, yes. Well, boys, I was right in the thick of that affair. . I looked right in the faces of some of that mob and I didn't recognize a single soul...
...witted champion as he trotted out with his trainers for roadwork, or shambled into a backyard garage through a door topped by Juvenal's maxim. MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO. The garage was his training quarters, fitted as a gymnasium with an 18-ft. ring. There he skipped rope, shadowboxed, sparred with his U. S. plug-uglies...
...Minute Alibi (by Anthony Armstrong; Crosby Gaige & Lee Shubert, producers). London has been excited about this play for the past ten months, and no wonder. Less ghoulish than Rope's End, as cleverly constructed as A. A. Milne's classic thriller The Perfect Alibi, Playwright Armstrong's piece leaps nimbly over all the stenciled pitfalls which ensnare such pedestrian efforts as Keeper of the Keys...