Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' collected short stories have good claim to being a better book than her big bestseller, The Yearling. When the Whippoorwill contains eleven stories, including a novelette (Jacob's Ladder) which first put Florida's "scrub" back country on the map and Author Rawlings among the ranks of the South's best regional writers...
...stormy night last week John Seed, still strapped in his cast, tried again. This time he went in by a door, climbed a ladder to the belfry, there pried open a locked door with a four-foot crowbar. With two companions he tugged at the clapper for half an hour, at length pulled it loose. Next day he proudly confessed his theft. Crushed, the university waived its $30 fine...
Beginning his career in the Department as instructor of Music in 1908, Professor Hill has filled the successive positions on the academic ladder. He became a full professor in 1928, was chosen to fill the James E. Ditson chair in 1937, and has served as chairman of the Department of Music...
Four engine companies of two pieces each, two ladder trucks, a rescue truck, and most of the Cambridge police force jammed the center of the Square at 8 o'clock last night to extinguish a configuration in the bedroom of Miss V. M. Union of 20 Boylston Street...
Most of Harris' music has been experimental, patchy and gaunt. But unlike many a contemporary composer, he has gone on correcting his past mistakes, improving his tools, getting his music clearer & clearer. Last year, after groping steadily upward on a rickety ladder of complex, dry, carpentered scores (Symphony 1933, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Song for Occupations, etc.), Harris really hit his stride with a Third Symphony. No sooner was it finished than Boston's pompous Sergei Koussevitzky rushed to give it a premiere. No sooner had Koussevitzky played it than excitable Maestro Arturo Toscanini (who conducts...