Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dirty handkerchief was tied across his eyes. The truck drove a mile out of town, stopped at a lonely crossroad. Again the judge was asked to sign no more foreclosures. Again he refused. He was slapped and kicked, knocked to the ground, jerked back to his feet. A rope was tied about his neck. The other end was thrown over a roadside sign. The noose tightened. Judge Bradley wheezed, thought they were killing...
...with the stars on brandy bottles; in The MindReader Warren William was violent, spurious but nonetheless likable in the turban of a phony medium. Unlike either. Paul Bavian (Allan Dinehart) of Supernatural is a lecherous and cowardly crook who ends up where he belongs, at the end of a rope...
...news of her dead twin brother. The heiress faints during a seance; when she wakes up, her eyes have a fiendish glitter. She entices Bavian aboard her yacht. He breaks out of her cabin in a puzzled panic and manages to strangle himself, apparently on the anchor rope, while trying to escape. Silliest shot: Bavian leering at his poor old dipsomaniac landlady until she falls over in a giggling swoon...
...been taken in regard to Shepherd Hall. No changes have been made in the fire-fighting system, and a system of fire doors has not been worked out. The only possible exit from the building outside of the narrow, poorly-lit, stairways, is through the make-shift, self-operated rope fire escape in each room, suspended from a thin iron hook. There is only one rope in every room, whether single or double. In the event that the other dormitories of the University are filled next year, it is possible that the University will attempt to utilize Shepherd Hall...
...April," he read: "A very sharp gust struck the ship. It seemed to be much more severe than any I have ever experienced in that it was exerted so suddenly ... a maximum force in two or three seconds. 1 noted immediately that the lower rudder-control rope had carried away." Then the upper control rope went. Then the man at the elevator controls calling out laconically "800 feet . . . 300 feet." ... I sighted the waves through the window and gave the order 'Stand by for a crash.' There was no further conversation in the control car after this order...