Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salomon bought himself one of these cameras, gave up his job and set out to make his new kind of historic document -photographs of the great as they really are, working, talking, eating, yawning. He climbed up a fire ladder disguised as a painter to take pictures of "Uncle Arthur" Henderson on his hotel balcony at The Hague. He disguised himself as a waiter. He camouflaged himself behind potted palms. Temperamental conductors let him sit with the first violins...
...Trenton, N. J., stands the New Jersey State Prison, isolated from the city by a 22-ft. wall. On top of the wall last week an electric wire needed repairing. An electrician leaned his ladder against the wall, went up to fix the wire. After him clambered four convicts, thrust him from the ladder, shot a guard atop the wall, dropped to the street outside. Before other guards knew what was happening they had disappeared around a corner, commandeered two automobiles and roared away...
...were indeed amazed to come upon a little Indian girl reading TIME. Mr. McKibbin took my kodak and climbed a ladder to the level above us where the little girl lived, and snapped the enclosed...
...small Ohio town. She was pretty, she was scheming, her ambition was inordinate. Though she liked a good time she was careful about it. When she got the job of stenographer to the town's most eligible young man she felt her foot was on the ladder. It was. Before Bill knew what was happening to him Lillian had him in a shrewdly compromising mess, his adored young wife had divorced him, and in a daze he had married Lillian. In the uneven battle that followed between Lillian and local society both sides scored some notable victories; at times...
...rich-quick promoter backs a play which turns out to be a flop; he sees red and continues to back it. (Manhattan playgoers will be reminded of The Ladder, a flop similarly bolstered...