Word: ladders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Vehicle jobs, for the Lunts, have a sort of advantage over solider plays: the pair can trot out their whole repertory of tricks, they can be versatile and uninhibited, they can be Lunt & Fontanne. In O Mistress Mine they romp happily up & down the comedy ladder-high comedy and broad comedy, badinage and burlesque-wowing the audience on every rung. If Actress Fontanne is a little too bubbly and gurgly at times, few of the customers seem to mind...
Stuart used to get up before the rest of the family. "To get to the wash basin, he had to climb a tiny rope ladder which his father had fixed for him. . . ." But he could not turn on the faucet. "So Stuart's father provided him with a very small, light hammer made of wood; and Stuart found that by swinging it three times around his head and letting it crash against the handle of the faucet, he could start a thin stream of water flowing-enough to brush his teeth in, anyway...
...game fish are the topmost rung of a long fish-eat-fish biological ladder. At the bottom are one-celled organisms-bacteria, algae, protozoa-which form the prey of slightly larger creatures (tiny crustaceans). These get eaten by the next size creatures-and so on up the line...
...long wheezing intake, says, "Oh-this is Mary and I'm Joseph. And we came to Bethlehem to see if we can have some place-find some place to stay. And that's all you have to know really." In the stable, an angel sits on a ladder and wise men and shepherds stand by and wonder as the Christ Child-an 18-month-old- stands up and waves to the audience from a clothesbasket. The play's "dialogue" was made up by a group of kindergartners after Director McCarey gave them the rough idea. McCarey claims...
...Nimitz, was DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, son of an Army officer, but a naval aviator since 1916 with a well-balanced war record of sea and shore duty, and with a smooth personality which fitted him well for dealings with the civilian arms of government. The boost up the ladder would raise Ramsey from two-star to three-star rank. The man he replaced, armorplated Admiral Richard Stanislaus Edwards, would go to the quiet Western Sea Frontier (headquarters in San Francisco...