Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life on the Narcissus is complicated principally by Terry's appetite for whiskey. He cuts off pieces of the hawser and pawns them for liquor so that when Annie sets out to tow a schooner into port she is humiliated by finding that she has no rope. Young Alec, disgusted by his father's dipsomania, goes to work for a steamship company, manages to satisfy his mother's ambition by becoming captain of the company's sleekest passenger ship, the Glacier Queen. The day Alec completes his first voyage, Terry gets drunk on hair-tonic. Annie...
Last week Britain's U. S.-born Department Store Tycoon Harry Gordon Selfridge held the rope of the great tenor bell. Shocked by the lapse of a British legend, he had paid for the restoration of Bow bells. He handed the rope to white-ton-sured Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. The oldsters of the Ancient Society of College Youths who traditionally ring the bells stood ready. Archbishop Lang leaned firmly on the bell-rope. Across Cheapside the great bell of Bow-said again."I-DO-NOT-KNOW!" The eleven smaller bells chimed...
Madrid Catholics celebrated the Feast of the Sacred Heart last week and Madrid Republicans did not like it. All over the city white banners stamped with the sacred heart hung from windows and balconies. All over the streets gangs of breathless young men in rope-soled shoes tore through the streets cutting up the banners wherever they saw them...
...brood on suicide. Even next morning, when his father has him come to a party celebrating his election as village mayor, the desolate child finds himself suddenly abandoned, ridiculed for his cast-off clothing on what promised to be a day of days. In a barn he finds a rope. His father barely prevents a tragedy...
...late Col. Michael Friedsam. the lurking thieves walked silently up into the dim-lit gallery. Swiftly & neatly they unhung ten famed paintings, turned them over, knifed out the wooden panels from the back, removed the canvases on their stretchers. They unrolled a 70-ft. length of heavy sash rope, tied one end to a newel post on the fourth floor landing, dropped the other out a window. There was no moon...