Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile license application. 4) The man who wrote the ransom notes delivered to Dr. Condon the sleeping suit worn by the baby on the night of the abduction. 5 ) Hauptmann did only a few days' work after March 1932, yet lived in mod est luxury. 6) The ladder by which the kidnapper entered the nursery was made of wood from a Bronx lumber yard where Haupt mann once worked and from which he subsequently bought supplies, and the nails in it were similar to nails in the garage which Hauptmann built himself. 7) Messrs. Condon, Lindbergh and Per rone...
...abode atop a 9-ft. pillar, made higher & higher pillars until he was finally ensconced on top of a 60-ft. column on which he lived for 36 years without once descending. The holy man hauled his food up with a rope, or it was carried up a ladder by his disciples, who founded monasteries nearby. Twentieth Century French diggers in Syria explored the great edifice of four basilicas built in St. Simeon's honor, in the courtyard of which the base of his column still stands. Their last bulletin to the French Academy of Inscriptions was that a fragment...
...gave her a social secretary's job on easy street. A rich young socialite fell in love with her, and Etta leaned the same way herself, but she was a little too cautious to let go entirely. The War separated them, gave Etta another boost up the economic ladder. On his first leave Etta was prepared to give him all, but at the last minute her finer feelings overcame her. When they met again, it was too late, she was about to have a baby by a middle-aged barrister, whom Etta had tricked into fatherhood. Her post...
...Fascist Italy's ladder of military organizations for males from 8 to 21, Benito Mussolini last week added a bottom rung for moppets between 6 and 8. Estimated enrollment: 1,500,000. Name: "Sons of the Wolf.'' The mythical founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, were sons of War God Mars. They were suckled by a kindly she-wolf and fed by a woodpecker. Mussolini plans no "Sons of the Woodpecker...
...This fall his long stretch without much contact work resulted in a slow start which he has only overcome within the last couple of weeks. Hitherto he has ranked below the other two, but West Point may give him his chance to get back at the top of the ladder...