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Word: roped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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There are a clown who has worked several summers with a circus, a cowboy rope spinner, a handwriting expert, two palmists, and two complete puppet shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS EMPLOY TALENTS IN HOLYDAY ENTERTAINING | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...Among his performing cats a trainer named Tetchow once had a tom who streaked up a rope hanging from the proscenium arch, got into a parachute basket, floated down to the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Gilbert on Vaudeville | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...pointed to the tax rate, which has increased $10 in the last ten years and which will be raised from $43 to $47 next year to support his contention that Cambridge is at the end of its financial rope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Quacks, Parlor Pinks" For Plan E, Lyons Says; Dean Landis Finds Cambridge Near-Bankrupt | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...They took us to quite an extensive valley where 100,000 Armenians were killed before us. Seeing that immediate death awaited me, I took the blade of a pen knife which I had stuck to my hair with wax, and cut the rope which tied me to the other nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Armenian Escaped Massacre by Hiding Among 10,000 Corpses and Playing Dead for Four Days | 10/16/1940 | See Source »

Alert, interested, smiling, sympathetic with all sufferers, the Queen wearing her customary rope of pearls, the King pacing along with his hands behind his back, the royal couple got a warm reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Week | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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