Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enrolled in the University of California (Berkelrey)...english scholar and backstage workers for college plays . . . who left Chaucer after graduation in '27 for such things as traveling with Isadora Duncan dancers... beginning as "reader" at Warner Brothers . . . making symphonies of books and magazine stories . . . he went up the tinselled ladder until he achieved his present position . . . that of assigning work to Paramount writers, Reading scripts, and looking for writing talent... and writning nothing himself, expect notes for the writers...
...ring out their nostalgic cry at 8:45 this evening. It is most unfortunate that several of those kind patrons who are personally involved in installing the chimes will have to speed away be train immediately after the performance. Though the Vagabond, so to speak, is left holding the ladder, nevertheles, he takes pleasure in wishing them much success, Godspeed and many happy returns of the reading season...
...March 1, 1932, Charles A. Lindbergh, unaware that his small son was being kidnapped, heard what might have been a ladder falling outside his Hopewell, N. J. home...
...come a long way from the days when visual puns were the heart of an animated cartoon. You remember: Felix the Cat used to have trouble entering fourth-story windows, only to sprout columns of huge question marks out of his head and use them as the necessary ladder. Insead of this we now have visual metaphors. The break of day, for example, is represented by the somber heavens' splitting along the lines between the stars and falling to the earth in chips, to have a bright sky in their place...
Finally everyone was ready. The Old Woman held the ladder. Bill slid down as usual. The Dormouse nearly fell asleep on the fourth rung waiting for the Hatter to make the next step. But Alice felt herself so grown up going to a tea that she wouldn't even let the Vagabond carry her down piggy-back. Yet all reached ground...