Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, however, the Aldermanic candidates for Sheriff, prohibited by equally venerable tradition from campaigning for office, lost the election. In 1922 Stephen Killik, then neither knight nor Alderman, beat the Aldermanic candidate for the shrievalty. Five years later he was elected Alderman and started his climb...
...unusual as Brasher's bird pictures will be the museum Connecticut intends to build in the Berkshires' Kent State Park. It will be a round, three-story structure, capable of holding 2,500 persons at one time. Visitors will climb ramps from the first floor to a rotunda on the second. There the circular floor space will be divided into twelve pie-like segments. At the end of each segment, facing the rotunda, will be hung the twelve biggest and best Brashers, to be viewed by visitors without moving from the building's centre. The other Brasher...
...influence of liquor in the U. S. His findings: "Localities which are regarded as dry are invariably wet. Take, for instance, Charlotte, N. C. . . . open saloons and the most awful whiskey I have ever tasted. They make it out of corn. Three drinks of it will make a man climb trees. And Kansas City? Ah, Kansas City! I have seen the streets of Paris at their best or worst, but they are nothing like the streets of Kansas City. If you want to have a good time, go to Kansas City...
...periods. What does a baby do when he is lying on his belly, on his back? How fast does he master the sitting posture, learn to creep, to crawl? What are the exact mechanics of his methods of locomotion? How well, at successive ages, can he stand (with help), climb stairs (with help)? What does he do when tempted by toy "lures" beyond his reach? The cameras ground away, and in the Atlas every movement of hands, arms, legs, feet, heads, posteriors is described in formal and scientifically pompous language. Eight paragraphs are required to detail one stair-climbing sequence...
...July 1912 the Senate voted to unseat Boss Lorimer. Complete collapse of the Lorimer prestige came in 1914 when he was tried on mismanagement charges growing out of a bank chain he had formed after leaving Washington. Having watched his most famed pupil, William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, climb to power and fall with Tribune help, he retired into the lumber business...