Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herr Dyhrenfurth's own climbing career began when he was nine and boasts over 700 Alpine peaks, with only one serious accident. (Nine years ago a rope broke, allowed him to plunge 21 feet...
Mantrap. Crowds at a Düsseldorf airport last week cheered while Daredevil Willie Hundertmark stood up in his plane, seized and clung to a rope ladder suspended from a second plane flying above him. Intermittently, for a half-hour, they continued to cheer while, with Daredevil still dangling from the bottom rung, the plane swooped and circled low. Then with horror they saw that the acrobat was tangled in the ladder, was too exhausted to free himself. Rescuers tried to snatch the swinging body but it was tangled too badly. The plane had to land. Daredevil Willie Hundertmark...
...Wurts, like one of the social dragonesses in The Cabala, famed novel by Thornton Niven Wilder, is a rich, enigmatic fragment in the age-old mosaic of Roman society. Tremendously dim, tremendously "important," she lives in the via dei Funari; the twisted "Street of the Rope Makers," on a floor of the Palazzo Mattei. Two other floors are occupied respectively by Principe Lodovico Mattei, himself, and by fidgety but obsequious Don Guido Antici-Mattei, a relation who is probably poor but, like rich Mrs. Wurts, tremendously dim, tremendously important to the Wurts Cabala...
Room 349. Among recent plays with plots based partially upon true stories are: An American Tragedy, Machinal, Spellbound, Jarnegan, Gods of the Lightning, Rope's End, Dishonored Lady. Of the true-story school also is Room 349?"a play etched from life"?which attempts to capitalize the murder of the late Arnold Rothstein, Manhattan mountebank, who was mysteriously shot in Room No. 349 of the Park Central Hotel on Nov. 4, 1928, in circumstances which suggested that he had been remiss about paying his gambling debts (TIME...
...Texas Co. Last June he set the coast-to-coast record in two swoops of his Lockheed Air Express. Last week he set out (with special permission from the Department of Commerce) to cross the continent in a cabin glider towed at the end of a 300-ft. rope behind a power plane. First day he was towed 400 mi., from San Diego to Tucson, with a stop at Yuma and Phoenix. At such way stations he unhooked his "car"' from its "locomotive" and coasted to earth, demonstrating the possibility of air '"trains...