Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Sir Laurence Olivier and his actress wife Vivien Leigh gave a dinner party at their Buckinghamshire farm (the guests: Composer Sir William Walton, Actor Sir Ralph Richardson and their ladies), burglars got into the house. Using Olivier's own ladder, they looted a bedroom of $19,600 worth of jewels and furs. Gentleman Farmer ("I keep a few pigs") Olivier recalled that his London home had been robbed in March, decided: "It is just not our year." Jockey Sir Gordon Richards, on the other hand, was convinced that there is some honor among thieves when his stolen spurs...
Where the crevasses Vere widest, the climbers built bridges with ropes and a portable ladder that stretched to 30 ft. Camp II was halfway, Camp III at the top. And after 45 days, they stood in the Western...
Psychiatrist Cathcart noted that the death rate from coronary attacks among psychoanalysts has been much higher than among doctors generally. "Recent statistics indicate that bartenders share the top rung of the mortality ladder with the analysts . . . Both are dealing constantly with the frailties of human nature and are witness daily to hostility in naked form, but are forced to restrain themselves . . . from taking issue . . . The incidence is low among manual workers, but the wives of laborers are more often affected than their husbands. The difference may be due to budget or family problems...
...foundations of A. P. Giannini's Bank of America empire), was a $35-a-week messenger for the Bank of California in 1916, served as a 2nd lieutenant in World War I, then joined his father's bank as assistant cashier. Climbing the financial ladder, he became president of Pacific National Fire Insurance (another Giannini property) as well as vice president of Occidental Life Insurance and the Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, was elected national commander of the American Legion in 1934. In 1943 Belgrano was named president of the Central Bank of Oakland, Calif...
...Interviewed as he was being hauled out of his craft by three burly dockmen, Rheault gasped, 'Nothing to it. Knew I could never make the top of the ladder--precarious position anyway. Always somebody fighting for the top. Nobody fighting for the bottom. That's where I wanted...