Word: ropes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in World War II a character called Alistair Digby-Vane-Trumpington (in Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags) asked his wife if she would mind if he joined the Commandos: "They have special knives and Tommy guns and knuckle-dusters; they wear rope-soled shoes...
...They carry rope ladders round their waists and files sewn in the seams of their coats to escape with. D'you mind very much if I accept...
With the auction room jammed and an overflow crowd standing at the red velvet barrier rope to be admitted. Manhattan's leading auction house. Parke-Bernet. last week auctioned all but the last of the fabulous contents of the Rovensky Fifth Avenue mansion (TIME, Jan. 21). Bids for the art collection, including $69,000 for a pair of Boucher classic allegories, totaled $1,264,410. Mrs. Rovensky's two Oriental pearl necklaces (which were once exchanged for Carder's present Fifth Ave nue headquarters), now considered to be worth only one-tenth their original value, still brought...
Discovers the end of his rope...
...come onstage, and the audience learns that they are waiting for someone called Godot to meet them there. The pair talk for a while, and than they are joined by two other characters, a cruel slave-driver and the slave whom he leads around on the end of a rope. After some more conversation, Pozzo, the master, and Lucky, the slave leave. A boy comes to tell the hoboes that Godot won't come that night, and the curtain falls. The second act, which takes place on the following night, is just like the first, except that when Pozzo...