Word: stall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stroke, John Watts: 7, W. G. Salton-stall; 6, H. G. Cushing; 5, C. B. Hitchcock; 4, Walter Maynard: 3, J. G. Buckley; 2, Donald Murchie: Bow, F. L. Ames Jr.; cox, C. H. Pforzheimer...
Among the Christmas magazines at the news-stalls there lay a newcomer, a monthly fiction magazine, with a creamy cover, a big golden moon, a golden skirted lady and gold stars. You stared at this magazine because there, beside the lady's golden skirt, in big red letters, the list of contributors looked so extraordinary. You had heard all the names before, but for a moment you could in no way connect them with a news-stall. It was like running across a bishop in a saloon or seeing your wife about to play quarter- back...
...door of the executive office, a large hideous chamber, papered green and with a metallic ceiling embossed with a design of palm leaves, cornucopias and parallelograms. The Governor's mahogany conference table is so placed that he sits in a swivel chair in a sort of a stall formed by his rolltop desk, a small table and the large one. He placed the chair, in which he intended Gen. Dawes to sit, at the open end of this space. Then the General entered...
...other-for her assumed namesake has been involved in Red Cross frauds. The girl's prosecution is pushed by a political boss anxious to hush her up in her fight to make him pay for crippling her brother. But a young attorney saves her by a stall. Artificial but well-wrought complications carry the story along. Agnes Ayres looks pretty but placid as the girl, and Antonio Moreno seems a bit too romantic for a mere lawyer...
...After the completion of the posture pictures" Mr. Fradd explained to a CRIMSON reporter, "men who are graded D report for corrective exercise, where special equipment is provided to enable students to improve posture. This equipment consists entirely of stall bars, stools, mats, chest weights, and a full length mirror...