Word: ladders
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...this time I saw nobody else. There were 20 men in the officers' quarters (where the submarine was struck). I rushed to the ladder of the conning tower. There were two men ahead of me. Water was already splashing when I got to the top. I was washed overboard as soon as I got out. I was picked up by a lifeboat of the City of Rome, which . . . steamed away for Boston in forty-five minutes...
...which is five points better than Captain Todd, who bettered its mark during the week with two good days at the plate against Holy Cross and Princeton Zarakov, the flashy third baseman, climbed 12 points in the ranking and retains his grasp on the third rung of the hitting ladder...
Married. Helen Menken,* able 26-year-old U. S. actress (The Seventh Heaven, The Makropoulos Secret) ; to Actor Humphrey Bogart, 26 (Up the Ladder, Nerves, Cradle Snatchers) ; in Manhattan, after taking out a marriage license in . 1922. Married. Miss Katharine Duchatel Johnson, daughter of famed novelist Owen Johnson (The Varmint, Stover at Yale, etc.) ; to one William E. Kugeman Jr., in Manhattan...
American literature, as a nineteenth century product, has been justly relegated to the mediocrities. American poets sometimes reached the second rung of the ladder; several prose writers attained peerage with their English contemporaries. But on the whole, even where Americans mastered technique, it is generally conceded that their field of expression was always restricted and often provincial...
...Saragossa, in Aragon, Spain, between 30 and 40 years ago. Some say that her parents were performers. She was taught to sew?at which art she went nearly blind once?and to sing Vespers in a convent, from which she escaped with the help of the gardener's ladder...