Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said that the present custom of stationing "side-boys" and a boatswain's mate to ''pipe the side" in the starboard accommodation ladder gangway, as part of the ceremony in formally receiving commissioned officers and distinguished civil officials, is a hangover from the time when ships had no accommodation ladders and guests reached the deck seated in a boatswain's chair attached to a whip. Orders to "walk away handsomely" on the whip were given through the boatswain's pipe (whistle...
...automobile crash in San Antonio, Tex. injured plump, benevolent Edgar B, Davis, rubber & oil tycoon who spent $1,500,000 to keep the play The Ladder going for 22 months in 1927-28 because he believed in its "message" about transmigration of souls...
...appointment of President Harding's Postmaster General Will H. Hays as public apologist for Hollywood. Died, Albert Russel Erskine, 62, president of Studebaker Corp.; by his own hand (pistol); in South Bend. Alabama-born, he quit school at 16, turned bookkeeper, climbed to fame up the long ladder of accountancy. As head auditor of American Cotton Co., he got his big chance when Yale & Towne (locks) asked him to peruse their books, promptly made him treasurer. In 1911 he went to Studebaker in the same capacity, was soon jumped to president of the company which Harry and Clement Studebaker...
Clambering down the outside wall with a hemp ladder the prisoners had made, the party seized the prison farm superintendent's car. A guard shot Harvey Bailey in the leg, but no further resistance was offered the convicts. The convicts retaliated by shooting a guard...
...with a gloomy face and sad Mexican eyes: Diego Rivera, the world's foremost living fresco painter. A guard called to Rivera to come down from his scaffold. He laid down his big brushes and the tin kitchen plate he uses for a palette, climbed nimbly down the ladder. Mr. Robertson handed him an envelop. It held a check for $14,000, last payment on the $21,000 due Rivera for his work. It held too a letter telling him he was fired. Artist Rivera woodenly went to his work shack on the lobby balcony to change from...