Word: ladders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week Vice President Curtis walked squarely under a ladder in the executive office lobby. "General" Brown carefully picked his way around it. ¶ President & Mrs. Hoover gave their big "gold braid" reception to the diplomatic corps. Hands shaken: 1,494. With a "Hello, Dolly!" and a "Hello, Alice!" Mrs. Edward Everett Gann and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth also shook hands, made up their social precedence feud. ¶ Last week the Federal Farm Board reported thus on its wheat & cotton stabilization efforts: "The outcome was not all that had been hoped for." Never the-less President Hoover asked Congress to give...
...English valets were suddenly told to repack their masters' belongings. The British liner Majestic was told to stand by at Cherbourg breakwater for the Governor of the Bank of England. When the Bremen reached Cherbourg breakwater a tug puffed out. Down, down, down an exciting rope-ladder climbed nimble Governor Norman, Economist Sprague and valets. The tug puffed over to the Majestic. Hand over hand, foot over foot, up another rope-ladder climbed masters & servants. The Governor of the Bank of England was returned to Southampton safely by the Majestic, reached London just 22 hours after he originally left...
...balloting got underway last week at the Atlantic Hook & Ladder firehouse there were three main schools of thought. Spokesman for the Travis faction said, somewhat erroneously: "Now the name of these diggings was Travisville in the beginning. That's his story anyway. Travis was an old ship captain and from what I hear he was some boy. Let's stick to the old name of Travisville, but let's cut off the ville. That sounds too much like a hick place. . . . Imagine going into some of them big Manhattan department stores to buy and giving your home...
...Ladder. Rule No. 8 is the last one: Don't go around without a ladder. That is, always have handy a means of climbing down from the eminence you achieve, that you may live to try again four years later. Most notable recent breaker of this rule is Lowden of Illinois who committed political suicide after losing the 1928 Republican nomination by rushing angrily off without due warning to his friends...
...Come with me to Heaven, but come on wings. Do not climb by a ladder." With this exhortation last week Conductor Arturo Toscanini rehearsed his Philharmonic-Symphony players through the great C Minor Symphony of Johannes Brahms. Tenderly, painstakingly, he molded every phrase and his men, as one, obeyed him. Magnificently he soared through the concluding chorale and even the stodgiest horn-player seemed to find the wings with which to follow. Then the little Italian called a pause, ate a bowl of soup with a raw egg in it before going on with the preparation of his first Manhattan...