Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Harvard professor than a Hollywood fire chief. (He does teach first aid to many faculty members and university employees in evening classes.) Reminiscing about the day in 1908 when Chelsea burnt down or showing his souvenirs from the time when every Cambridge householder was required to possess one ladder and two leather buckets for the bucket brigade, Chief Gutheim points out that in the 41 years of fire fighting which he can remember Cambridge has always been rated A-1 by the underwriters. This has been accomplished "despite what we have to work with"; namely, an almost brand...
...accepted the surprise nomination of the well-oiled National Revolutionary Party machine, on a platform of "Panamanian nationalism." Shunted off to the directorship of the Department of Sanitation after leading Panama's first and only revolution, dark-eyed, Harvard-trained Physician Arias had been started up the diplomatic ladder by his brother Harmodio. Harmodio was elected President in 1932, sent Arnulfo as Minister to Berlin, then to Rome. Last year he was Minister to Great Britain and France. Still political small fry, only 38 years old, and accused of Fascist inclinations after his Axis appointments, Arnulfo had hardly been...
...fornication and bastardy) courtroom, he tore up sketch after sketch, exclaimed: "I can't cover that wall with bastards." Finally he painted panels relating to a child's security: an adopted bootblack; a foster father playing with a child; another helping a child up a ladder; a child trotting to school...
...heads," she said, "we were in the water. When we tried to sit up we were blown down again by the wind. . . . When we found the warship we all stood up and cheered and shouted for the good old British Navy. The Navy men helped us up a rope ladder -first an arm and then a leg-and I could not help thinking how funny it was. The sailors gave us rum to drink. It was horrible stuff, but I suppose it did us good." Already safe aboard the destroyer was the fourth member of the family, her four-year...
Throughout most of this fiscal backing and filling Davis was busy practicing his theosophic belief that because Divine Providence had led him to money it was his holy duty to spend it. In 1926 he backed a Broadway play, The Ladder, for an old playwright schoolmate. Believing in its theme of reincarnation. Angel Davis stubbornly kept the play (a flop) going for two years, eventually admitted the public free. The whim cost him a cool $1,300,000 before he had had enough. Going back to Texas to drill for more oil, he watched the last of his capital disappear...