Word: roped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This new contraption, an affair of rope and iron rungs, will be encased in a wooden box with a plate glass front, just big enough to make a beautiful target for your foot. The idea is that at the first peal of the fire alarm, the unfortunate inmate of the room makes a flying leap at the box and kicks the front in. Then in one rapid motion he hurls the rope ladder out the window, first making sure that it is tied to something in the room, and clambers nonchalantly down the wall, trying to act as though...
From the Champion's quarters came two cordial invitations to Business to skip rope with him. It was announced that any industry which would like to try NRA again was welcome to apply to George L. Berry, longtime printers' unionist and onetime Blue Eaglet. The United Press also reported that the Administration was seven billion dollars behind its immediate spending program, would soon "issue a revised budget that will give a new, sharper and more glowing picture...
...turned up at a review of the Spanish fleet in civilian grey flannels and a floppy soft hat (TIME, May 16, 1927). Last week loyal British residents of Cannes and officers of the Wishart understood that nothing was amiss when Royal Edward arrived for the inspection wearing rope-soled sandals, grey linen trousers, a brick red shirt, and with sporty, Baltimore-born Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson at his side...
...worth of Government oil at stake, the danger of a major explosion aboard the tanker which would flood the sea with blazing oil and perhaps destroy the S. S. Soviet was too great to risk. The only thing to do, the Captain decided, was to cut the tow rope...
Seven sailors aboard the Soviet warned that they would surely catch it from Moscow if they cut that rope. Nine sailors were for cutting it. The rope was cut. Aboard the blazing tanker 27 lives were lost but the Soviet stood by at a safe distance all night, picked up next morning two members of the tanker's crew clinging to an overturned life boat...