Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hole Institute. The 142 foot steel boat was put in the water recently but is yet far from completion. The ship when completed will be powered by a 300 horse-power diesel motor and four sails. Costing $175,000 the ketch will have two laboratories, ten tons of wire rope, and quarters...
...trouped with "The Four Leamy Ladies," joined Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circuses in 1920. Thereafter she was the only artist to appear alone in her act, with single spotlight and bass drums booming. Her most famed stunt was "the giant half flange": rolling herself upward on a suspended rope, swinging her body over her shoulder while hanging 50 ft. from the tanbark. Her record: 249 turns. Her first husband was one Clyde Ingalls, her second was Alfredo Cordona, Mexican trapeze artist, leader of the Cordox troupe...
Eight white men, three Indians and one Negro have been lynched in North Dakota* since 1889 when the region became a State. The eighth white man died last week, hanging under a bridge at the end of an inch-thick rope...
...Irrepressible Count Felix ("Sea Devil") von Luckner last week set out with friends on his schooner Mophelia to cruise and shark-fish in the Bahamas. His shark-tackle: A 100-ft. rubber rope which, he solemnly declared, would snap sharks out of the water when they finished their rushes...
Having guessed, the hangman picks out the right sized rope, selects a stool of appropriate height, calls in one or more assistants to give the feet of the condemned a downward jerk after the stool has been kicked away...