Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somewhat rotund, full-blooded gentleman of 54, with a history-printer's devil to millionaire-statesman-vaguely reminiscent of the first of U. S. ministers to France (Benjamin Franklin), he might feel, if he got the post, that he had earned it. He has worked up the Republican ladder diligently, from clerk in the New Jersey State Senate, to Governor, to the U. S. Senate. His earnestness and lack of poise while speech-making make him accompany his words with an up-and-down motion of the elbows which has brought him, among newsmen, the title of "The Jersey...
...band of crooks, recruited from the best talent of the legitimate stage, robs gullible ladies who come for messages from the dead, until one real ghost, through the mouth of brilliant Claudette Colbert, gives away the gang's secret. Best shot: a kidnaped baby on a wharf-ladder...
...Gibson career began at the foot of the foreign service ladder, at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in 1908. It took him ten years to reach Paris. Woodrow Wilson in 1919 made him U.S. Minister to Poland. Calvin Coolidge transferred his ministerial duties to Switzerland and finally, in 1927, elevated him to the rank of U.S. Ambassador at Brussels...
Brokenly the great Parisian heart specialist, Dr. de Gennes, exclaimed to the reporters: "Pray to heaven, gentlemen, that no further relapse occurs. Each leads our glorious patient a few steps further down the ladder of Life...
...leather fire hats were stolen from the ladder wagon while it was stopped in front of the Georgian. The firemen, who fought the blaze above the coffee urns with heads uncovered, came out to find their leather headgear gone. The trail led plausibly enough one block over to the Pudding Clubhouse on Holyoke street. No fire hats could be found there at a late hour last night. The fireman was told that the period of the play was 1850. He went away from there...