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...with excitement, turned to his fellow passengers and said: "Gentlemen, my brother-I mean, my son." Photographers began to take pictures from the tugs below. Father and son posed readily at the rail of the ship, again on the cutter after the old man had climbed down a vertical ladder. "Let go my arm," he said to a sailor who tried to help him. He himself kept order among the overeager photographers. "You'll get all the pictures you want," he said, "so don't get in front of each other and get in each other...
...portrayal of an honest District Attorney. Possibly this is too rapid an advance, for the story concerns the life of two boys, close friends ever since they were rescued from a shipwreck. Both are essentially fine persons. But while Jim's code allows him honestly to mount the ladder of democracy to the position of District Attorney, Blackie finds that his fits best into the under-world. They remain friends, however, and not even the delicate time when Miss Loy changes her affections destroys their relationship. It is when Jim is running for governor that two murders by Blackie bring...
...unique tennis ladder has been initiated by the Lowell House Committee. Rankings have been posted on the main bulletin board, and men challenge those ranking above them. Horace B. Shepard '34, Bartram Kelley 1G, and William P. Rockwell '35 are the first three ranking players...
...would risk that (and it is a mighty unworthy parent who is unable to offset Phariseeism at home) if I could make sure of securing for my children the influence of teachers to whom their job is not just a pay envelope and a step higher on the ladder of respectability than the rung to which they were accustomed. But we, like so many others, simply haven't the money . . . even if we had the inclination to send our little ones away from home to be educated by teachers of our own choosing. How fortunate for all concerned...
...laws existing prior to 1901. All but four of the 48 deaths in recent tenement fires occurred in "old law" buildings of which New York City has 67,000, most of them dating back to the Civil War. One-half of them are equipped with rusty vertical ladder escapes long since outlawed. Hundreds have no fire escapes at all. Some of them were condemned nearly 50 years ago. Grouped in great blighted areas around the shores of Manhattan Island and in some of the more desolate districts of Brooklyn, these '"old-law" tenements (with a scattering of new) constitute...