Word: roper
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...Roper: So now you'd give the Devil himself benefit...
...Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that...
...More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned on you-where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's-and if you cut them down-and you're just the man to do it-d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then...
...order to carve up the faces of their Harvard opponents. The editors intended it to be amusing, and were amused Princeton partisans, who as a rule seemed to take things rather seriously, were not. Nor were they amused by a Lampoon story claiming that Princeton coach W. W. Roper had died. "I think Princeton took it pretty hard, pretty hard," offered Carroll F. Getchell this week. Getchell was athletics business manager at the time...
...Pierre Cardin, Coco Chanel and Stavros Niarchos. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, the eminent historian, has been wearing his bracelet for three or four years and says its effects are "frightfully good." He admits that his wrist turns green, but then "all that is part of the juju, what?" Lanning Roper, garden editor of London's Sunday Times, another believer, has discovered an added benefit. "During the last hot spell," he told TIME'S Betty Suyker, "I took it off for a few days and suddenly I felt...