Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington the Mills family lives in a big house on 18th Street rented from Walter Evans Edge, the asparagus-loving U. S. Ambassador to France. Before breakfast each morning to the house comes H. C. Langmak, physical trainer, to box, skip rope, do setting up exercises with Mr. Mills before he hustles away to his office by 9:15 a. m. In slack times the Undersecretary slips out to Burning Tree Club where he plays an 85-10-90 game of golf. In Manhattan the Mills home is just off Fifth Avenue on 6gth Street. There is also a Newport...
Herr Groepler, a stolid individual whose profession forces him to lead a rather unsocial existence, left his cosy home in Magdeburg last week with a bag of tools and a coil of new rope. He took the train to the Prussian State Prison at Klingelpuetz, near Cologne. In the prison yard he disappeared into a dusty, dilapidated shed. Prisoners tense in their cells heard him hammering, hammering, filing metal all day long...
...Dallas, Rev. B. P. Brown, 30, part-time preacher and part-time baggage clerk, was found by police hanging, gagged and nude, by a rope from a chandelier over the pulpit in his church. For two days he repeated a shocking story of attempted lynching by four "enemies." Then he confessed: he had intended suicide, changed his mind...
...Cartersville, Ga. a two-year-old boy fell into a well. His mother, Mrs. Wesley Scott, 18, hastily knotted together a number of ropes, started to descend by the improvised life line. The rope broke and she fell into the water, seizing the baby as she struck the surface. For three hours she cried for help, until passersby heard, rescued mother and child...
Short, dark, tired-looking, she is superstitious, pessimistic, hates to be alone. She is fond of her dachshund, Robinson. She lives in sociable isolation at Manhattan's literary Hotel Algonquin. Other books: Laments for the Living (TIME, June 16, 1930); Enough Rope, Sunset Gun (verse...