Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dario in 1925 he was reminded of Count Keyserling's remark about the women of Italy-that as young girls they dream of being grandmothers. Dario, brilliant and ambitious, dreamt of being an ambassador, and was but a few rungs from the top of Mussolini's ladder when it fell in 1943. Unlike most of the climbers, however, he was not hurt. A daring young man, he dived for an A.M.G. life net, later sported a U.S. uniform while his old pals were marched off to jail. When the Americans moved out, Dario became a Communist...
...Ladder. Success in politics took Aléman somewhat longer. Three times between 1929 and 1935 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress from Vera Cruz. Then he renewed acquaintance with young Lieut. Colonel Carlos Serrano, a dark and devious little man with a passion for politicking. Serrano had drifted from the army into politics, watching closely as the powerful Calles maneuvered Presidents in & out of the National Palace, and the more powerful Cardenas in 1934 maneuvered...
Bottom of the Ladder. That Patterson became an airman was due largely to chance. But he came honestly by his liking for hard work. He was born on Oahu Island, where his father was overseer of a sugar plantation. A tireless man, his father often wore out three horses in the course of a day's riding about the fields. He died when Billy, as he was then called, was 8. Young Billy and his mother, who worked in different places while Billy sandwiched in his hit-or-miss schooling, traveled back & forth between San Francisco and Hawaii. When...
...took a long time to investigate the call. The police chopped away the Collyers' bolted front door, and were confronted by a solid mass of newspapers, cartons, old iron, broken furniture. Finally a patrolman went up a ladder, opened a shutter, swept his flashlight into a cavelike burrow. Homer was sitting on the floor. He was naked except for a thin and tattered bathrobe, his long white hair hung down to his shoulders, and his hand rested near a shriveled apple. He had been dead for some hours...
...would be an un-Texan understatement to say that Texans boast. It was probably a Texan who was so tall that he had to climb a ladder to shave; it was undoubtedly his brother who was so small that it took two men and a boy to see him. So when they heard that Hugh Roy Cullen gave away upwards of $100 million one night last week, Texans recognized a true son of the Lone Star State...