Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigilantes were formed to avenge King of William; and "when Casey's body swung from a rope, law was born." In the next few years the Call and Bulletin together fought many a sensational campaign, notably that of 1875 against financier William C. Ralston, pride of San Francisco, builder of the famed old Palace Hotel. The papers accused him of dishonesty, ruined him, supposedly drove him to suicide, were nearly mobbed by the inflamed populace...
...fact that no contests are scheduled for the University team until after Christmas, Coach Henry Lamar, University of Virginia graduate and winner of the national Amateur Athletic Union boxing championship in 1925 and 1926, has been working on fundamentals, with a good deal of organized calisthenics and drill, including rope skipping and shadow boxing...
...same Senators and Congressmen were concurring in the immediate necessity for tax-upping. They talked with President Hoover and left the White House convinced that he would recommend ways & means of raising more revenue. They heard that Secretary Mellon had reached what he felt was the end of his rope in putting out deficit bonds and now wanted authoritative instructions from Congress as to the next move. They were well aware of the political riskiness of lifting tax rates just before an election but they could figure out no escape...
...live in an age of revolt. All things good are bad; and things bad are not bad enough. Institutions are corrupt, men are stupid, football is overemphasized, life is a long rope with a noose at the end. This is perhaps a sound enough criticism of modern life, but unfortunately we are not content to belittle ourselves, we must go back and belittle our fathers. Washington was a cursing drunkard, Hamilton gadded about with far too many women, Jefferson was a pompous hypocrite. This is a bad business. The Vagabond likes to feel that there were giants upon the earth...
...Labour government, not having a majority in the Commons was totally unable to carry out its "Socialistic experiments." What the British people gave to the Labour government was enough rope to enable Lloyd George and the Liberals to tie it hand and foot and nothing more. L. J. M. Halle, Jr. '32. Cambridge, Mass...