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Special knives and tommy-guns and knuckle-dusters ; they wear rope-soled shoes . . . they carry rope ladders round their waists and files sewn in the seams of their coats to escape with," Alastair Trumpington breathlessly tells his pregnant wife. "D'you mind very much if I accept?" "No, darling, I couldn't keep you from the rope ladder. Not from the rope ladder I couldn't. I see that." It is not quite easy to believe in the Basil of the epilogue who says, "There's only one serious occupation for a chap now, that...
...extreme example of the Annapolis clan spirit is the Green Bowlers, a secret fraternity of Annapolis men dominated by the single idea of helping one another up the naval ladder. Composed of top-flight graduates in each class, the cabal of Green Bowlers was started in 1909, has been reported abandoned. Its influence remains...
...spring Sunday in 1788, a small boy climbed up a ladder behind New York Hospital and peeked into the dissecting room where doctors were studying the anatomy of corpses. To shoo the child away, so the story goes, a doctor went to the window, brandished a human arm and severely declared: "It's your mother...
...heavies get a weekend off, but there should be plenty of interesting activities on the Eastern crew front to clarify the position which the T. Bolles special holds on the sectional ladder...
Died. James Francis ("J. Frank") Davis, 71, author of Broadway's longest failure, The Ladder (1926-28); in San Antonio. The play's backer, a millionaire oilman, spent $1,500,000 keeping the play running, because he thought it had a great message. Once it played to an audience of three...