Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre with gyves which you rightly suspect will not be strong enough. Kong breaks them in full view of a first night audience, pushes down the side of the theatre, wrecks an elevated train, climbs up the side of a hotel as though it were a ladder. When he finds Miss Wray he climbs, with her in his fist, up the outside of the Empire State Building. He sits down on the mooring mast, disgusted by his surroundings. A squad of airplanes finally shoot him down...
...life. "If there is anything more glamorous than a Florida river I have yet to find it." Now (34), she has tried to be a writer for 24 years. Her first real encouragement came two years ago, when Scribner's printed her long short story "Jacob's Ladder." South Moon Under, with George Bernard Shaw's The Adventures of the Black Girl in Search of God (TIME, Feb. 27), is the March choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...Chicago, having walked under a ladder and presided at a 13-course luncheon of the 13-membered Anti-Superstition Club on Friday, Jan. 13, to defy Bad Luck, skeptical Sidney Nicholas Strotz, president of Chicago's $7,000,000 Stadium, had to announce that his Stadium had gone into receivership...
...middle-aged couple, straining up the social ladder, get their fingernails on the top rung-then slip...
...itself to a large portion of the cinema public because Babe Stewart, the gambler, is Clark Gable, borrowed from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to play opposite Carole Lombard. Typical shot: Gable-whose animal appeal is abated somewhat by a constant sucking at his teeth-persuading Miss Lombard to climb a ladder in her library so that he can admire her from below...