Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looking president of giant Corn Products Refining Co. Like many another top NAMster, Sayre started his career at the bottom. After graduating from the University of Richmond and Lehigh University, Sayre went to work for Corn Products in 1908 as a $75-a-month boiler washer. He climbed the ladder rung by rung and never lost his modesty on the way. He likes to keep his door open to any one of his 5,000 employees who has a complaint or an idea...
Cambridge firemen, arriving on a book-and-ladder truck and a fire engine, showed little appreciation of their undue summons and remarked to questioning Yardlings that they were merely on a practice run. "Five Yard policemen were present to preserve the remaining modicum of order among north-entry residents...
...soon as ladder tournaments are completed within the Houses, intramural squash will be divided into an A and a B league. Matches begin on Monday, December...
...masters"-strips that expressed some real, if limited, human situation: Mutt, lean, mean and grubby, abusing Jeff, "symbol of the little man, kicked, downtrodden, and yet eternally coming back for more"; Barney Google in love with his shy, awkward horse, Spark Plug; Maggie scrambling up the social ladder while Jiggs pathetically tries to escape to the simple joys of corned beef & cabbage at Dinty Moore's place...
What is exasperating about all this is that the novel so gapingly succumbs to the pompous middle-class standards of its own characters. Inflated Bel, a meddling woman busily climbing the social ladder; dough-mouthed Mungo and his horsy noble-blooded bride; rattle-brained David unable to decide between love and honor-these ciphers are fondled by Scottish Author McCrone as if they were creatures whose experience had intrinsic significance and value...