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Working out for hour and a half at the Indoor Athletic Building, Peabody skipped rope and punched the bags, keeping to his prearranged schedule. It was thought possible that though the game was cancelled for the coast city, it might be played in some other section of the country...
Nothing that happened last week could prevent the spreading of cold rage through an already frigid spike of a man-Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Hitler's chief executioner. For, clearly, the thousands of tired bodies he had rushed to the rope or the firing squad had not cowed Europe's revolt against Hitler's New Order...
...with an assist toward the U.S. declaration of war on Spain. One midnight with a party of Cubans he spirited beautiful 18-year-old Evangelina Cisneros, daughter of a Cuban revolutionary, out of a Havana jail cell. Her window bars were filed, she was hoisted to the roof by rope and taken in boy's clothing to a chartered steamer. On her arrival in Manhattan she got a heroine's reception, and she and Decker were later feted at the White House...
Angel Street (by Patrick Hamilton; produced by Shepard Traube in association with Alexander H. Cohen) gave Broadway its first real shudders in almost two years. Author Hamilton, who raised audiences' hackles with his Rope's End in 1929, can still summon up goosebumps. No crude spook or corpse melodrama, no bloody bundle of closet horrors, Angel Street, which played in London under the title Gaslight, has the good old English knack of brewing a thriller in a teacup, of making a Victorian parlor more menacing than an opium den, of giving to gaitered footsteps a carpet-slippery stealth...
...corkscrews are petrified liana (woody, rope-like) vines which twisted naturally in ancient tropical Nebraska...