Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There's no doubt that Princeton is "plenty good." Any team that can build up a string of 13 consecutive victories in two years of major competition has the right to rate itself up at the top of the ladder, and the Tiger's record these past two seasons has shown that there is an abundance of hard-driving backs, in fact several complete backfields of 'em, and a heavy, potent line...
...campaign to electrocute Bruno Hauptmann at the State Prison in Trenton by the spring of 1935 went relentlessly on. In the earth below the Hauptmann garage New York police found a barrel of nails such as those used in the kidnap ladder. In Washington the Department of Justice thought it was on the trail of a prime clue when it found that Hauptmann's footprints corresponded with footprints left in the mud beside the Lindbergh home the night of the abduction. John Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation, continued to steal thunder from his brother. Steamboat Inspector...
...German, or at least Teutonic. His English was largely phonetic and he used "gute" for "good." He also appeared to be some sort of mechanic; one ransom note had a careful working drawing of the sort of box in which he wanted the money delivered. The ladder by which he climbed to the Lindbergh nursery was of careful, home-made construction, and a New York City toxicologist, examining ransom money as it came in, found emery dust and glycerine esters. Hence the man was likely to be a carpenter or machinist who ground his own tools. Judging from the ladder...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann fitted the image of the Lindbergh kidnapper almost to a T. He had the flat face, the pointed nose, the small mouth. He weighed 180 lb. He had worked in The Bronx lumber yard whence came the scantlings in the kidnapper's ladder. He was, indeed, a carpenter. Under the floor and in the walls of his garage was found $13,750 more of the ransom money. The taxi-driver remembered him in a minute. "Jafsie" Condon made a "partial" identification. Handwriting experts agreed that the lettering in the ransom notes unquestionably matched samples of Bruno...
...remember those books? In the First Reader you began with "the dog ran," and learned to read words of two and three letters. In the high school, with the Fifth and Sixth Readers, students read Hamlet and Childe Harold. Step by step they mounted the ladder. Each reader was well illustrated and all were equipped with lessons in punctuation, inflection, modulation, and with glossaries and biographical notes...