Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somebody entered the London hotel bedroom of Constance Thomas Emery after she had left for the evening with her husband Thomas Emery, Cincinnati chemicals heir. The stranger opened a locked drawer, took a jewel-case containing a $37,700 rope of 85 matched pearls, diamond brooches in the shapes of a terrier, a rose and a duck...
...significant which this year's pudding has revealed is that there is one more feat which defys the art of any Harvard undergraduate. A Harvard man simply does not know how to wear a form-fitting dress. But he can sing, skip rope, and as is most convincingly proved, he can sometimes write music...
...curriculum of the first year includes floor and aerial acrobatics, gymnastic exercises on cross bars, trapeze, rope-walking, bicycle riding, and many other specialties...
Promptly captured, Nelson Nash, 24, confessed the crime, started to lead police to the scene, when a white mob scooped him out of the hands of the Law. At the end of a rope Nelson Nash rose in the air while 50 bullets peppered his wriggling black body. Wet wood was all that prevented the lynchers of Nelson Nash from burning him at the stake...
Manufacturers of binoculars, rope, paint, varnish, furniture, mattresses, hammocks, Diesel engines and fire extinguishers told how the Navy was making these same articles for the fleet at increased costs to the taxpayer. That the Government Printing Office should manufacture ink, paste and mucilage incensed all U. S. ink, paste and mucilage manufacturers. Bitter were the complaints of local retailers against the Army's system of post exchanges where merchandise was underpriced and untaxed. Railroaders flayed the War Department's barge line on the Mississippi as open larceny of their freight traffic. Musicians flayed the Army, Navy and Marine...