Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary. Fresh from his province, little Jean Jacques Brousson gulped with awe, despite bracers of cognac, on the morning of his first interview. He hid behind France's library ladder, fled unnoticed among other callers. France sent for him, took to his shyness. "How much do you earn?" "Nothing." "I will double your salary." And the master was rewarded for his kindness by modesty, honesty, devotion. Translator Pollock is admirably literal...
...Duncan sisters are enthusiastic in their praise of Brown, so that a permanent place at the top of the musical comedy ladder, without the usual intervening steps, awaits only a word from those in control of "Topsy and Eva". The show will play about 15 weeks in the United States and will go to London next fall...
...routed Ingraham of Exeter in the round before the semi-finals 6-1, 2-6, 7-5. This upset ruined Exeter's chances of victory. Andover failed to prove very powerful and merely succeeded in snatching fourth place, thus landing St. George's at the bottom of the ladder...
Item: Max Squeezer '08 very nearly attained success last Friday night by calling out the Fire Department to assist him in effecting an entrance through the upper reaches of George Smith Hall. Owing to a slight deficiency in the twenty-third rung of the fire ladder, Mr. Squeezer is now almost a total loss to his class...
...husband was nearly snared by a stenographer. Many expensive actors were wasted on all this-Lewis Stone, Anna Q. Nilsson, Shirley Mason and Ian Keith-and a lot of terrible subtitles, such as: "You are my wife and I know you are clean to the core." Up the Ladder. One more atrocity is perpetrated. It is the old story of the sacrificing wife who makes her husband famous only to find that he is deserting her for a fuzzy-headed female down the block. She finds it out by means of a telephone he has invented, which includes a reflector...