Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This latter, a magnificent red and sliver creation of doubtful parentage, is completely equipped with a non-detachable, streamlined ladder of some 100 feet in length...
...should the fine expansion of the talks stop the growth of other aids to Unionists. The Committee cannot rest after one step with a long ladder yet to go. Special effort will be needed to awaken exam reviews from the coma they entered following last year's disappointment, and many parts of the Confidential Guide will be dropped or changed. Nor must the proctors feel any less needed for advice now that their charges are given official pictures of future courses. The Union Committee's program is a happy addition to first year guidance and not a substitute...
...show amiably bore out the theme of Anglo-American lese majesty. Called "Romeo and Juliet, 1936," it was played in three scenes, in each of which a stepladder served as the balcony. Scene I was between Juliet du Pont upon the ladder and Romeo Roosevelt below. Scene II between John Boettiger in Juliet's cap upon the ladder and Wooer William Randolph Hearst below. Scene III showed Mrs. Simpson (Helen Essary, wife of the Baltimore Sun's chief Washington correspondent) with Edward in Golden Crown (Newshen Elizabeth Mae Craig, correspondent for New England papers) below...
...toughest-looking member of the unit." Holding pastorates in New Haven and West Roxbury, Mass., Dr. Wilkinson was in Boston during its famed police strike of 1919, became a volunteer traffic cop on the motorcycle squad. Because he was also offered the chance to drive a hook & ladder truck, Churchman Wilkinson was mildly sorry that Boston's firemen did not join the strike. He is now in his 40's, looks younger. He has not met President Roosevelt, was selected by St. Thomas' vestry sight unseen...
After Bareiter had hung in the gusty air for something like half an hour, his helpers, John Rogers and Charles Hahne, climbed up a fire ladder and, by means of a long pole, got a pulley and rope up to him which he hitched to the guy wire. Helper Rogers then snaked up the rope, cut the tangled rope from Bareiter's ankle, lowered him from his blowy height to the roof and safety...