Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 45 minutes later, tottering with weakness but still resolute, Mme Hanau entered the office of the warden of St. Lazare prison from which she had been removed. "I demand to be imprisoned here," she cried, still formidable. She had escaped from the hospital by climbing down a rope of bedclothes. Nothing had prevented her from attempting to escape completely...
Black Bill bobbed smartly, threw a left hook, a straight right, flew off the ropes like a whirligig. Midget Wolgast danced round him in circles from left to right, his left hook working like the plunger of a sewing machine, his long hair flying. Every three or four rounds of the 15 that kept the crowd roaring, the Midget showed a new trick: breaking a wild flurry he would stand stock still, holding his left hand high until Black Bill led at it, then whacking his right across; he caught Bill in the air coming off the ropes...
Down a swaying rope into a black, hot pit, 1,350 ft. below the earth's surface, 325 ft. lower than anyone had ever gone there before him, slid Frank Ernest Nicholson, journalist-explorer, into the unmeasured depths of the Carlsbad Cave in the Guadalupe Mountains in lower New Mexico. Last week came reports of his expedition, begun in January (TIME, Jan. 27). He told of nightmare rock formations, of crystal clear water and perfect cave pearls in a subterranean pool. While he was drinking, a feeble chirping split the stifling black silence. He investigated, found a nest...
Laboriously climbing back up his rope the equivalent of 30 floors, he started horizontal explorations which led miles beyond any known territory. One vast underground chamber, lavishly studded with stalactites, pools of water, a fountain, Nicholson and his comrades named "Hell's Half Acre." To the north of this room was a shaftway, with levels above and below. A strong air current suggested another entrance to the cave...
...execution chamber of the State Prison at Florence, Ariz., hangs a row of 16 pictures of murderers executed there. Around each picture is looped the noose in which the criminal died. Last week prison attendants added a 17th picture and a 17th rope, thereby memorializing the picture of Mrs. Eva Dugan, 52, first woman executed in Arizona...