Word: ridley
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...buildings like the foliage of a fantastic iron jungle. No. 63 Allen Street, near the corner of Grand, is a large green-painted wooden door with a rusty lock and bar. Above some ash cans floats a white hand in eerie benediction. Beneath the hand is painted: E. A. RIDLEY, Sub-Basement...
...years Edward Albert Ridley had put on his rubbers rain or shine, clapped on a bowler over his flowing white hair, muffled himself in an overcoat outside of which he arranged his long, curly white beard, and had taken an early train to New York from his boarding house in Fanwood, N. J. In Allen Street he let himself through his door, descended a long ramp to what had once been the basement blacksmith shop of the stables of his father's large drygoods store. Before 1901, when the firm sold out, E. A. Ridley & Sons had done...
...years ago someone murdered Mr, Ridley's clerk, Herman Moench, who had served him 50 years. Mr. Ridley had come in late that morning. He did not notice Moench, dead on the floor, for some time. The mystery of Moench's death was never solved. Last week another killer followed the pointing white hand down to Mr. Ridley's musty retreat and another, more gruesome mystery attached itself to No. 63 Allen Street...
...Defined in dispatches from Cambridge as "men who play dominoes and wear their hair long and wool next to their skin in warm weather." *Erected in 1841 in memory of Protestant Bishops Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley, the Martyrs' Memorial is decorated with domestic crockery by Oxford undergraduates almost as often as Princeton's Christian Student is defiled with empty gin bottles...
...experts who had seen her beat Dorothy Andrus Burke, Mary Greef and Joan Ridley of England at Seabright last month, what dark, 20-year-old little Carolyn Babcock of Los Angeles did last week was exciting and satisfying. To the rest of the gallery which had never heard of her before, it was amazing. She had a hard match in the second round against Mrs. Burke which she won 10-8, 10-8, but her first real test came two rounds later against Mrs. Lawrence Harper who was runner-up in 1930, when Helen Wills Moody stayed in California. They...