Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Water Haul. In Cincinnati, a burglar climbed a ladder to a third-floor office, found the combination written on the door of the safe, followed the directions, opened the safe, found it empty...
...Communist Party is ... a tiny, privileged ruling class marked off from the great herd it governs as sharply as any ruling class in history. It attracts the ablest and most ambitious men, because it is the only ladder to power and to all the dignities that go with it. It also attracts some sly scoundrels, but these I believe are rather rare exceptions...
...School courts when he observed smoke coming from the second story windows of the Carey building, a small frame and stucco structure lying almost adjacent to the northeast corner of the Stadium. Two minutes after he turned in the alarm, the Boston Fire Department, District 11, consisting of two ladder trucks and three engine trucks arrived on the scene. The first alarm was turned in at 3:28 o'clock...
Kennedy turned in a second alarm at 3:42 o'clock and one more ladder engine and three more engine trucks headed by acting Chief of the Boston Fire Department, John F. McDonough, were soon at the scene, and the fire was quickly neutralized. By that time traffic was being held up on North Harvard Street and had to be routed through the Business School by the policemen who were on hand...
Much of Sablon's climb to success had been made on the ladder of love. He got his first job in show business-as a chorus boy-through a mademoiselle who was smitten with his charms when she saw him on a train. Then Mistinguett, who at 70-odd still boasts "la plus belle jambe de France," took a shine to him, made him her leading man. In the U.S., his press-agents call him "the French Frank Sinatra," adding archly, "who appeals to the nylon-soxers...