Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About the year 1560, the people living near Jogjakarta in Java found a strange creature on the beach. It looked like a man, except that it was white. They chained it to a big square stone outside of town where all could watch and laugh at its antics. They called it "the white sea monkey...
...drawings in last week's exhibition-showing two windblown cuties on the Coney Island boardwalk-was done overlooking a Vermont stone quarry. "It would have made a beautiful landscape," Marsh recalled, "but not for me to paint. A couple of farmers peered over my shoulder while I worked, wondering where the devil I saw the invisible girls...
...about to enter Dogpatch, an average stone-age community, It nestles in a bleak valley, between two cheap and uninteresting hills...
...picture's greatest merit is its memorable types: the inarticulate young girl whose frozen, dangerous fear seems to choke her like a stone lodged in the throat; the nurse whose own mind has worked loose in the buffeting, jarring atmosphere of the asylum and who now wanders through her ward, forlornly keeping imaginary records...
...choose from. Once, when Karl bought a stock of fine woolens to sell at the then unheard-of price of $15 a yard, Simon swept the goods off the counter, crying: "Do you want to ruin this store?" Later Herzfeld and his two partners, Richard Phillipson and Nat Stone, took over the whole store. They, and later Richard Herzfeld, kept it growing...