Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stern asked him to come and see her; three months later they married. Now she lives in a lofty villa at Diano Marina, Italy, surrounded by wolf dogs and olive trees. There she and her friends go about in shorts, blouse and sandals; at night she retires up a ladder into a bunk-bed. Voluminous, witty, her many books are full of sophisticated sweetmeats. Among them: Debatable Ground, The Matriarch, A Deputy Was a King, The Room, Modesta...
...were in the midst of an emergency. Our house was on fire and we could not stop to dispute over the brand on the hook & ladder. Though the Fire Chief was known to be vacillating, uncertain, timid and afraid of the smoke and flames, we have tried to make the best of it and get along with him until we can secure a better one which we expect to do March...
...fireman of the future," cried Chief Methuen, "will not climb up a ladder from the pavement, he will climb down a ladder, from a hovering air fire engine...
Economist Roger Ward Babson blamed the Depression on Calvin Coolidge because he "got the businessmen on a stepladder and then the ladder was knocked down...
...importations are James Hanley's Men In Darkness and Boy, now supplemented by a first novel by Derbyshire Coalminer Boden. Though less savage than Hanley's books, Author Boden's novel treats the same general theme-the brutalizing misery of those on or below the economic ladder's lowest rung...