Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like beaten puppies, the snarling folk of Broadway often cringe from the hand that is raised to stroke them. For example, Edgar B. Davis, an obscure but very wealthy operator in oil, produced a play called The .Ladder (TIME, Nov. 8, 1926), which dwelt, with confused eloquence, upon a theosophical theory of reincarnation...
Last week Edgar B. Davis again surprised Manhattan theatre-goers by announcing that from July 11 until further notice The Ladder would play to paying audiences...
...probability the answer lies in none of these suggestions. Today--and even more so tomorrow--a Bachelor's degree is but the bottom rung in the educational ladder. Men choosing the pedagogic field must now prepare to leap the hurdles of the Master's and the Doctor's letters. Therefore although many have the teaching profession in mind they hesitate to announce their decision on entering the graduate school, realizing that further study may possibly lead them into paths divergent from the professorial chair. A man entering the Law School or the Medical School has his future definitely decided...
...reached the mouth of Edward West. Unable to shout any more, in a few minutes he would be unable to breathe. As he waited for a slow drowning, Edward West saw the face of one George N. Lyman at the top of the narrow hole. George Lyman lowered a ladder, Edward West climbed...
...printer's devil in Knoxville, Tenn., he had risen to publisher of the New York Times. Said Alfred Morton Cohen, of the Hebrew Union College in Manhattan, where Mr. Ochs is chairmanning a $5,000,000 endowment drive: "As Adolph Ochs has climbed rung by rung the ladder of fame and fortune, his love for his fellowmen has increased more and more...