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...Museum's elevator offered unique possibilities, since it was neither automatic nor electric. The only mechanical advantage consisted of a winch and a few gears at the top of the shaft. To go up, one simply kept pulling down the main rope. The elevator descended of its own accord with any sort of a weight. And to stop at any of the floors, the rider pulled on the "brake rope," which stopped the winch from unwinding...
...Exit. In Des Moines, the $52,000 damage suit that Hugh Warren Bascom brought against the Lloyd Hotel and two process servers was dismissed, in spite of his testimony that when he climbed out his third-floor window to avoid the process servers, and started lowering himself down the rope provided by the hotel as a fire escape, the rope broke...
...turn. Before the curtain went up on the third act of Napoli, the ballet master pointed out our places. We stood just behind a row of ballerinas draped along the edge of the stage. One of the group twirled the end of a rope near a ballerina who was still stationing herself. In a slightly hurt voice and in uncertain English she pouted "a-a. .pl-eese." Four of us practiced pulling a cart decorated with flowers across the stage. This was to be the finale. "Now just relax ourselves," said the ballet master...
...Lenin once said of them: "We shall support the Social Democrats like a rope supports a hanging...
...make matters worse, she was nudged out of first place by Hungary's Ibodya Czak in a tie-breaking jump-off at 5 ft. 3! in. Dotty came home to her mother's little house in Mitcham and leaped through her days, kicking at high bannisters, skipping rope and playing netball, a British version of basketball. She accumulated more medals and trophies than a small-town pawnbroker. In 1939 she set a world's record: 5 ft. 5¾ in. Her awkward scissors style grew so popular that it had female jumpers getting off on the wrong...