Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young couple spryly tripped out of Jake Wirth's. The gentleman looked at his watch, walked up to a man carrying a ladder and asked him where the theatre was. "I don't know: I don't know anything," he replied. Unfortunately there were no moving picture producers on Stuart Street or the unknown cherub-faced moron would have had a free trip to Hollywood, and an exetic office withing which he could fabricate better movies; the idea is not facetious. Any child would have been ingenious enough to have concocted a better movie than "The Mystery...
Harvard men are superstitious. Yesterday a crew of carpenters engaged in repairing the roof of Wigglesworth Hall left a ladder leaning against the wall of the building in such a way that it slanted completely across the main path to the Union...
...noon-time and the Freshmen were returning from lunch. Twenty-five out of 28 Freshmen carefully made a detour around that ladder. Then came two proctors. They, too, walked across the grass to avoid the evil omen. "Superstitious people," the reporter remarked, as he detoured around the ladder...
...build the ladder by which we rise...
...long been recognized as one of the most prominent actors in France, and has appeared recently in many stage successes. The production, which has had a long stage run in France, contains a typically French theme, and deals with the romantic escapades of a country youth who ascends the ladder of fame as a fashionable hairdresser. Prior to the main picture, a short curtain raiser will be presented...