Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a small fire yesterday afternoon behind the parking lot in the Business School. The whole fire department, hook-and-ladder included, turned out for the show, but there was very little...
...ravishing Irish maid, on whose head admiring Frenchmen coyly dropped bougainvillea blossoms. In Paris and Manhattan he meets the Polish photographer Zygmunt Pisik, whose German mistress changed his name to Johann von Schönberg to start him off right. His French mistress pushed him right up the ladder by making him Henri de Beaumont. He became famous for his studies of nude ladies on bearskin rugs...
Today no man in the U.S. is more fanatical at laying down and arguing for New Deal policies. But somewhere up the ladder from young social worker to Presidential alter ego, Hopkins doffed the reformer's sackcloth, donned a sports jacket...
Repeat. In Hartford, Conn., firemen carried Mrs. M. J. Knowles down a ladder from her bedroom. Later she returned to bed. The fire rekindled, the firemen returned, carried her down the ladder again...
Special knives and tommy-guns and knuckle-dusters ; they wear rope-soled shoes . . . they carry rope ladders round their waists and files sewn in the seams of their coats to escape with," Alastair Trumpington breathlessly tells his pregnant wife. "D'you mind very much if I accept?" "No, darling, I couldn't keep you from the rope ladder. Not from the rope ladder I couldn't. I see that." It is not quite easy to believe in the Basil of the epilogue who says, "There's only one serious occupation for a chap now, that...