Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some day soon- announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, the next number of the program will be a raid. The place is in the custody of the Federal Government." Hostess Livingstone fled across her wee golf course, tried to get to one of the windows which she had prudently equipped with rope ladders to the street below. She was caught, jailed, later released on $2,000 bond. The entertainment over, the cheer confiscated, dismally the guests went home. It was not the first time that Belle Livingstone-who tells stories about her friends Theodore Roosevelt, Lord Kitchener, Edward VII, King Leopold...
...Cherbourg the two English valets were suddenly told to repack their masters' belongings. The British liner Majestic was told to stand by at Cherbourg breakwater for the Governor of the Bank of England. When the Bremen reached Cherbourg breakwater a tug puffed out. Down, down, down an exciting rope-ladder climbed nimble Governor Norman, Economist Sprague and valets. The tug puffed over to the Majestic. Hand over hand, foot over foot, up another rope-ladder climbed masters & servants. The Governor of the Bank of England was returned to Southampton safely by the Majestic, reached London just 22 hours after...
...champion went down on. his face and the people who had laid 3 to i knew their money was gone : when a fighter falls on his face he seldom gets up. At the count of seven Singer flopped over on his back. His face was under the ropes and looking up he took hold of the middle rope, pulled himself half erect. But the count had ended and he had lost his title...
...Mandan, N. Dak., Edward Loran often told friends he would fool his wife by pretending to hang himself. Last fortnight his body was found suspended in his cellar, the feet one-quarter inch from the floor. Edward Loran had misjudged the rope-length...
...vaudeville acts are no worse or no better than usual. "Mantell's Manikins" put on the best act of the program with a varied assortment of marionettes performing. Will and Gladys Ahern, formerly of Simple Simon, are a close second best with a repertoire of rope spinning and wisecracking. The other acts keep the average down...