Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Power), but it takes Stan nearly two hours' playing time to learn that in spite of all his talents he was born to be a Geek. Stan is one of the most wholehearted and resourceful heels yet to leave a print on the U.S. screen. He climbs a ladder made of ladies. Rung No. 1 is Zeena (Joan Blondell), the midway's mentalist. He plays cozy with her just long enough to swipe a pseudo-telepathic formula through which he can graduate to the big time. No. 2 is a luscious, loyal dimwit named Molly (Coleen Gray), whom...
...right, my Young readers," and the Sage of the Age, and a very Young age it is too, "is Leeward Skreindler, Young Dartmouth politics, cheerleader, and vendor of hand-painted ties. When not practicing the old locomotive, Skreindler is prone to wend his way upward on the political ladder two, Youngs at a time...
Dick Harlow was rationally pessimistic before leaving, but he did not look gloomy. His team, if they win tomorrow, will not be pulling a Center College. The Crimson is not rated too far down in the nation's gridiron ladder and last weekend's sobering experience should have them well up psychologically for tomorrow afternoon...
...years ago the fire department allied with the municipal police fought a pitched battle with the Virginia boys and the state troopers. Routed at the end, the firefighters lost their clothing and trucks to a rioting band of fraternity men after responding to a false signal. Hook and ladder in nearby Crozet, more intrepid than the Charlottesville smoke eaters, can still be summoned in an emergency...
After 1935, Harvard teams began the long climb up the ladder, Not always contenders for first-rate billing until the great team of 1941, the big football revues always gave Harlow credit for "well-drilled teams," capable of dark-horsing a way to the top-given breaks and a spark. In 1941, the powder barrel went off, and behind All-American Center Chub Peabody, the team made up in defense what it lacked in offense, catapulting the Crimson into the big time. Dreams of a football renaissance in Soldiers Field ended, however, with Pearl Harbor...