Word: ladders
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Signor Mussolini, well nigh intoxicated by these splendors, climbed a steep and rickety ladder with intent to view in panorama the expanse of Leptis Magna, which slumbered beneath a protective layer of sand from about the Sixth Century until four years ago, when Finance Minister Count Volpi, then Governor of Tripoli, commenced its excavation...
Having gazed well about him, the Premier began to back down the ladder. A clicking sound came to his ear. Merciless cameramen were shooting to advantage his inelegant posture...
...tricks of style and thought to keep him from waking to reality. And Mr. Farnol has given him few in this particular work. The plot is very, very apparent. One reality guesses who the real villian is early in the story, and from the moment Olivia Revell descends her ladder into the world of Jeremy it is obvious that she is his forever. Mystery does not befog this highway, though the author try to build mazes of confusion in the good old romance manner...
...soon as the teams get outside there will be a ladder tournament for the 28 new men which will decide the member skip of the second team. This team will be picked from six of the men who here been practicing at Longwood and the semi-finalists in the ladder tournament...
...natural for amassed millions to lead their inheritors from industrial to cultural pursuits. And the direction of most great industries eventually passes into the hands of ladder-climbersmen schooled by industry for its own purposes. Into such hands the International Harvester Co. passed in 1922, when Alexander Legge was elected its president. Mr. Legge, great in stature, sombre of brow, "began" with the company in 1891 at Omaha...