Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain William Kidd sailed from New York to fight pirates off Madagascar, became one himself. Sentenced to death in London, he exclaimed: "My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part I am the innocentest person of them all. . . ." First the rope, then the gallows broke during his execution. He was hanged to a tree...
...leader darkly. Student Stephens stumbled from his bed. Outside it was 19° Fahrenheit. In his pajamas he was escorted to a field three miles from the University town of Norman. There the black-robes lashed Student Stephens ten times across the back with a three-quarter-inch rope. Then they gave him an overcoat, a pair of boots, told him to walk home and "take time to think before writing any more such stories...
...employes had had a weekly fire drill. There were no fire escapes in the building, but each department was provided with collapsible canvas chutes known as "lifesacks" down which people could slide to the streets. Quick-witted clerks on the fifth floor saved many lives by twisting a life-rope from an enormous bolt of cotton cloth. Miss Hisaya Yoshida, the president's agile secretary, crawled six floors down a drainpipe to safety, nearly fainted as another girl fell to her death from the fifth...
Newspicture of the year, nominated by INS:?sailors dangling and falling from a rope beneath the airship Akron...
...traditions of the school which they were sworn to uphold." Accoutered in black hoods, they entered the editor's room at midnight, carried him off three miles into the country in his pajamas, with the thermometer standing at seventeen below, gave him ten lashes with a three quarters inch rope, and let him walk home. For ten days, the University officials investigated the case, and then expelled the fourteen from college. Yesterday, Governor Murray chose to reinstate them...