Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exciting but comparatively simple job to pluck three Boy Scouts off a narrow ledge jutting from the perpendicular, 1,000-ft. face of Wallface Mountain near Lake Placid, N. Y. last week. The Scouts had climbed up 300 ft., could not advance or retreat. After a chilly night on the ledge they were sighted by search parties. A Coast Guard aviator flew a 1,000-ft. rope from Plattsburgh, hovered overhead signaling directions while res- cuers hauled the boys hand over hand, one at a time, up the cliff...
...Blue Widow (by Marianne Brown Waters, produced by Lee and J. J. Shubert) is a repetitive comedy about a strumpet who can narrow and widen her eyes. Situation: into a country-houseful of friendly weekenders is insinuated a deceased playwright's baby-faced mistress, representing herself as a grief-shattered widow (Queenie Smith). Plot: she drills unremittingly into the head of every man visible that he is a big strong man, she a little weak woman. Thus she gets proposals of various kinds from a bachelor, a married man too much in love with his busy literary wife...
...Watkins Glen, N. Y. last week State park officials found a deer perched on a narrow rock ledge jutting out from the face of a sheer 83-ft. cliff. What would happen if it tried to go backward or forward could be seen by looking down. In the gorge 35 ft. below lay the broken body of the deer's mate. Only hope of rescue seemed to lie in throwing a bridge from the chasm's opposite bank. But the park-men knew that their first move would probably startle the deer into leaping off the ledge...
Such a dramatic upheaval can be indeed pleasant to ponder over, but it does not seem in the least likely to occur. Some explanation for this may be that the Lowell regime was not as stuffy, narrow-minded, and conservative as the wiseacres tend to make out. President Lowell himself declared that he preferred to be called a conservative because he could then be as progressive as he like, and no one could object; As far as personal tastes are concerned, he was as well acquainted with the subway as Mr. Conant...
DEAD MRS. STRATTON-Anthony Berkeley-Crime Club ($2). Sleuth Sheringham, detecting a murder, finds himself the favorite suspect, has a narrow squeak, remains puzzled...