Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jobs lost, the careers ruined, were U. S. Democratic Party Leader Franklin Delano Roosevelt to ape Italian Fascist Party Leader Benito Mussolini in prescribing gymnastic tests for his party henchmen. Doubtful it is that sickly, 64-year-old Speaker William Bankhead of the House of Representatives, could pass a rope-skipping examination; that suffering Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief administrator, would survive a pole-vaulting test; that Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley would fare well with the broad jump, or that bald, short House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn could throw a discus very...
...said that I was towed into the sky by an airplane, which was not true. I was launched by an engine-driven winch mounted on a truck (designed and built by E. Paul du Pont Jr.) winding in 4,000 ft. of ⅜in. manila rope spread across the airport. This enabled me to climb to 800 ft. above the ground before dropping the rope...
...testified that she refused to pay $3,500 for Artist William Andrew Pogany's portrait of her because he had made her: 1) round shouldered, 2) redheaded, 3) thick-thighed; had not shown her red fingernails; had made her look "like a droopy sack of cement with a rope tied around it." Sit-in model for the portrait had been Mrs. Pogany. Snapped Miss Bennett: "Why, that woman is an Amazon!" Snorted 55-year-old Willy Pogany: "She wanted me to compromise with my artistic honesty." The jury, so instructed by the judge, found that Actress Bennett owed Artist...
Last night's release "expects" Bayard S. Clark '40 to be master of ceremonies, coordinating and working in specialists, among others, impersonators, a rope spinner, a "swing" trio, a banjo soloist, an octet, and any additional talent scouted among the Class of 1942. The show will be on the singe continually, save for one intermision, during a period of 90 minutes...
...apparently in the old West there was an eavesdropper crouching behind every clump of sage brush. Also like most Zane Grey stories, the newest one begins with a bang. Hiding out after killing a man, tall, grey-eyed Laramie Nelson observes some gunmen ride into his grove, tie a rope around the neck of a 20-year- old cowboy and throw it over the branch of a tree. "I cain't fool about heah an' see yu hang thet boy," drawls Laramie. The next 327 pages tell how Laramie and the cowboy become close friends, how they rescue...