Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough to make a beautiful target for your foot. The idea is that at the first peal of the fire alarm, the unfortunate inmate of the room makes a flying leap at the box and kicks the front in. Then in one rapid motion he hurls the rope ladder out the window, first making sure that it is tied to something in the room, and clambers nonchalantly down the wall, trying to act as though he were leaving his yacht...
...guaranteed by the manufacturers that this ladder will last for fifty years instead of the ten that the present rope pulleys last...
...little use for anything but parking. This attempt was successfully parried by the labyrinthine bureaucracy of Lehman Hall. Charles R. (Colonel) Apted '06, when questioned on the matter, said that the Fire Department had complained they would be unable to get their gigantic new hook-and-ladder into this triangle with the parking situation as it now stands. As far as he was concerned, however, he was simply carrying out his orders...
...settled down to spend his fortune. One day in Texas he met an old schoolmate named J. Frank Davis, a Boston newshawk who had been grievously crippled in an accident. Edgar Davis suggested that Frank Davis write a play, offered to back it. Result was The Ladder which opened on Broadway in October 1926. Edgar Davis produced it partly because he believed in its theme of reincarnation but chiefly because he wanted to help his friend. Critics lambasted the play, audiences dwindled to a mere handful. This inauspicious beginning cheered Backer Davis who remembered the sequel to his earlier failure...
...bonuses for his employes, $10,000 for the best painting of a Texas wildflower. According to Edgar Davis' theosophic conception of things, Divine Providence had led him to money and it was his holy duty to spend it. But after the failure of The Ladder the Davis successes grew fewer. His North & South Development Co. continued to wildcat in the Darst Creek and Buckeye Fields, but brought in no spectacular wells. Promoter Davis traveled less frequently, gave fewer dinner parties, confined himself to quiet bridge games and an occasional art lecture. All of his remaining capital went into...