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...dress in a hurry, and to plow through the slush to the Union. Arriving there, I invariably find that the Union clock is at least two minutes ahead of all other University clocks, and at least five minutes ahead of Eastern Standard Time. A cute little rope is stretched across the entrance to the dining hall. In front of the little rope stands that imposing personage, Miss Murray. Cerberus-like, she prevents us poor mortals from passing through the sacred adit...
...Bingham's first report to President Conant reveals the state of mind to which a prolonged and relentless budgetary deflation has brought the officials of the Athletic Association. Coached virtually in the terms of an ultimatum, it is a declaration that the B.A.A. has reached the end of its rope, that the process of cutting and cutting and then cutting some more, can go no further, that from this point on it is up to the Corporation to say how the athletic budget shall be balanced...
...officer then retired. With the help of his own guards he tore the gibbering black from his cell. Warner clung to the bars, to the railings of stairs, to doors, to the ground, to people, to anything he could lay his bleeding hands on. At the end of a rope he was hoisted into a tree. His gasoline-soaked clothing was touched into flame which cast an ugly glow upon the faces of a mob of 7,000 men, women & children...
...Publishing Co., saw two bandits, faces masked by towels, levelling pistols at his head & heart. "Hello," said he calmly. Abruptly he snatched the towel from the face of one of the bandits, barking, "Who are you? What are you doing in this building?" When the other pulled out a rope to bind him, Publisher McGraw lunged forward, grappled with both, unmasked the second bandit. His companion dropped his revolver, pulled out a hammer swaddled in a towel. Publisher McGraw dodged, then prudently subsided. They bound & gagged him, took $90 from his coat pocket, escaped. Released by a porter. Publisher McGraw...
...mumble themselves into a rage against "good old Pete.'' They climb in his window, bully his little daughter, argue drunkenly with him. When they propose to take him forcibly to apologize to the college president, he orders them out profanely. One lassoes him. The connotations of the rope and the song. "Hang him to a sour apple tree," suggest a lynching, get them half out the door with their man when the professor's wife appears in the doorway. In shuffling shame they drop their ropes, go mumbling away. When the authors finish with their hero...