Word: roped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Junior Davis was more than just a crack football back. In West Point's difficult Master of the Sword test (it includes chin-ups, rope-climb, vertical jump, softball throw) he broke the Academy record with 926½ points. In basketball, Davis was a good forward; in baseball, a talented centerfielder. Wise Branch Rickey has said that Davis was worth $75,000 to any big-league baseball club. Two weeks ago, after finishing a baseball game against Navy, Davis hurried across the campus to help out Army's track team (he broke the 220-yd. Army and meet...
Death Is an Honor. There was little repentance, even on the gallows. Said Camp Commandant Major Victor Zoller with a smile, as his hands were tied: "I am not a war criminal . . . neither were the others." Screamed the camp dentist as the rope was fastened: "Lord help me! ... I thought the American troops were here for justice & freedom." But death was welcomed, after a fashion, by August Eigruber, once Gauleiter of Upper Austria. "I consider it ... an honor," he snarled as the hood was placed over his head, "to be tried and hanged by the most inhuman of all victors...
Pastor to Painter. As his worshipers knew him, Fuseli was "a little white-headed lion-faced man in an old flannel dressing gown tied round his waist with a piece of rope." Brought up to be a Lutheran pastor, he left Zurich soon after his first sermon, on the text: "What will this babbler say?" The babbler had decided that there was a better future in painting. "I do not wish to build a cottage," he wrote in a friend's album, "but to erect a pyramid...
...Although the band doesn't play "A Bicycle Built For Two," the effect is quite convincing if not entirely stylish. Another show-stopper hides under the title of the Newest Sensation on the High-wire, and the star (also new in the States) manages to skip a three-foot rope nearer the ceiling than anywhere else. Before and after his dance he walks up and down a slanting wire, and, though he sways back and forth some, he hasn't slipped yet and may live as long as one of Ringling's elephants. These last...
...grey and grimy harbor district, which looks like any Clydeside port, the dingy shops of ship's chandlers, fish & oyster packers and sailmakers line the narrow streets; old-country signs such as "Gourock Rope and Canvas, Ltd." dot ancient, weatherbeaten buildings. Marking the inner harbor entrance at the foot of Victoria Pier, a yellow-bricked sailors' memorial towers above the waterfront. Half a block away is the old Neptune Tavern (known from Singapore to the Cape of Good Hope for its "strong ale and pea soup"); nearby are other noted grog shops such as Joe Beef...