Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Javelin-throw, Rope-sinewed George Williams of Hampton College, hitherto not famed, tossed 197 ft. 1½ in., a new carnival record...
...Yale News" in an editorial stand for a liberalizing of the cut system at Yale, suggests the idea, prevalent in the colleges, that given enough rope, the Great Unwilling will eventually hang itself. Unfortunately, here, as in other walks of life, it is a case of divided to fall, united to stand. Given enough rope, enough cooperation, enough seasoned catch-words, and the hardened suicide can live through any system fabricated. Show a few gentlemen C's, worn with just a touch of the Gentleman Ranker and the Spree, and membership to the Federation of Non-Labor is free...
...manner of the modern prize-ring and broadcast by a whiskered radio man who begins McNamically: "Well, here we are at .Camelot. . . ." In this tilt Will Rogers, on a cow-pony, cuts figures around the knight on his lumbering charger and finally yanks him off with a rope and drags him round the field as western ranchers used to drag a horse-thief when they caught one. Will Rogers' deliberate awkwardness, his sham ble, mock shyness and ability on horse back, are all ideal for the role, and it does not matter that his drawl is Oklahoma in stead...
...Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Combined Shows, in every sense the Greatest Show on Earth. This year's premiere was a little saddened by the absence of Lillian Leitzel, the small, muscular lady who used to do more than 200 one-handed giant turns on a rope high up under the Big Top. She fell and was killed when a trapeze ring broke with her in Copenhagen last February (TIME, Feb. 23). Last week her husband, Trapezist Alfredo Codona, "The Wizard of Flight," brought back her ashes in a golden urn. Airplanes dropped wreaths on his ship...
...ideas were put into effect:-- "As later determined, the committee will select from the men in standing position, as well as seated in the shell, from time to time a certain number for elimination. Hats off to those eliminated men." Now, I ask you, must our oarsmen become tight-rope walkers and Washington crossing the Delaware...