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...seminary in northern England, afterwards to the English College in Rome. Ordained in 1916, he stayed in Rome long enough to take a double doctorate (in divinity and philosophy), then returned to Liverpool as curate of St. Michael's Church and began the slow climb up the hierarchical ladder...
...darling. I couldn't keep you from the rope ladder. Not from the rope ladder I couldn't. I see that...
...rest of the ladder includes veteran John Mortimer, promising Enos Richardson, Stanley Youssekovitch, Dave Olyphant, Jack Lapsley, and John Davis, who may get a late start because of an arthritic seizure...
...From Warsaw last week came reports that the 133-man Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party., meeting in Moscow in December, came within an ace of firing Khrushchev in favor of ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov, who seems to be huffing and puffing up the ladder since his demotion two years ago. The report has a plausible sound: a prearranged close testing of strength would be a finely calculated hint to the ebullient Nikita to mend his ways, but fast. It would explain the recent reversal of the Khrushchev line, the rewarming of Stalinist slogans for the benefit...
Eccentric Human Nature. He was the son of a stuffy, snobbish Royal Academician named William Collins, whose only aim in life was to climb to the top of the ladder, kicking off old friends at every rung. Wilkie rebelled violently against his father's way of life-particularly because the elder Collins always deemed his social climbing to be a form of Christian uplift. Consequently, Wilkie developed a lifelong aversion to religion, preferred low society to high, and liked to dress for dinner in camel's-hair coats and pink shirts. He was shortsighted and short of stature...