Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regards Jackson, it is true that he did, acting on Mrs. McCormick's orders, fetch a ladder with the help of Farmer Gay and subsequently entered the Duke de La Tremoille's room through the window. Long previously by shouting and throwing stones at the window I had sought to rouse the Duke if he were there. Behind the window curtains Jackson found little smoke, no fire. The room was empty, the lights lit and the door to the corridor closed. The Duke had unfortunately left his room without attempting to escape by the window, and tried instead...
...October 1926 someone with a very long ladder broke into the State-owned Chateau of Chantilly, and stole the famous Grand Condé Rose diamond that Louis XIV had given the due d'Enghien after the latter's victory over the Spanish Army at Rocroy in 1643. Chiappe took charge of the investigation but had little luck until a chambermaid named Suzanne Schlitz felt hungry in a cheap hotel on the Boulevard de Strasbourg. She bit into an apple lying on a table and broke her tooth on the Grand Conde. Within a few days Jean Chiappe...
...Harvard again in 1919 he sped up the academic ladder-associate professor of chemistry in 1925, full professor in 1927, head of his department in 1931. Students found him harddriving, businesslike, admired his vast authority. Meantime he was deep in the chemical researches which in time made European scientists first ask visiting Harvardmen: "What's Conant doing...
...desperate prisoners when he suddenly was set upon with clubs by seven convicts headed by Life Termers Jim Clark and Bob Brady. Participants in the Memorial Day jail break, they seized Guard Deer's keys, locked him and several trusties in a cell, spent 20 minutes building a ladder, rushed it across the baseball diamond and climbed over the prison wall under cover of a fog and under fire of guards...
...three years ago people stopped in front of a small black canvas entitled "Dog Barking at the Moon." On the right, in strange iridescent colors, was something that might be a dog. Above it was another shape that might be a moon. On the left there was definitely a ladder, shooting up into infinity. As a work of art it only annoyed most people. Yet last summer that same canvas, now the proud possession of an eminent Union Club member, Mr. Albert Eugene Gallatin, was listed by Chicago critics along with Rembrandts, El Grecos and Manets...