Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate booted out that squat Republican, Now hardly a day passes without a barrage of dead cats for General Johnson from the Schall office on Capitol Hill. The Senator's outpourings have annoyed and embarrassed his Republican colleagues whose silent strategy is to give NRA all the rope it needs to hang itself. They explain Mr. Schall's blatant behavior on the ground that he fears that Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Olson, identified with the whole Roosevelt program, will oppose him on his next senatorial campaign. Schallisms: "NRA no longer stands for National Recovery...
...perpendicular, 1,000-ft. face of Wallface Mountain near Lake Placid, N. Y. last week. The Scouts had climbed up 300 ft., could not advance or retreat. After a chilly night on the ledge they were sighted by search parties. A Coast Guard aviator flew a 1,000-ft. rope from Plattsburgh, hovered overhead signaling directions while res- cuers hauled the boys hand over hand, one at a time, up the cliff...
Crucible (by D. Hubert Connelly, produced by Huban Plays, Inc.), a drama about some denizens of Manhattan's Tombs Detention Prison, opened the night after three young prisoners had escaped from the Tombs, up a secret dumb-waiter shaft, down a rope of prison bedsheets bound with bedspring wire, in the Tombs' first important jailbreak since 1926. Hoist by this factitious timeliness, Crucible turned out to be a hoarse and inexpert melodrama. Plot: a philanthropist and onetime gambler takes an interest in the girl's painting, offers the boy a job. Audi- ences soon become aware...
...seven by the leisurely but loud tolling of a deep-toned bell, slung high in the spire of the new Memorial Chapel. For five minutes it will continue its song until everyone is thoroughly awake, and then it will considerately stop. It is rung by wheel and bell-rope, taking great skill to manipulate it, at seven, quarter of nine, nine, and thenceforth on the hour throughout the day till four. Two other bells, which compete with it are the Memorial Hall bell, and that in the Catholic Church nearby. Fortunately both of these, which ring day and night...
...brought a rope. He wanted to hitch Jiminez' legs to a motor car and drag him through the streets. "No! No!" commanded Lieut. Villalon. "Let him lie in the streets like an animal!" The dying man stared up at them. They kicked and fouled his corpse after he went limp...