Word: stoole
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went out to the little courtyard where the gallows stood, a stout wooden frame with several hooks and a stool on which men stood before an SS kick deprived them of their last grip on life...
...down an elevator shaft; an actress (Andrea King) who will help or betray anyone to keep herself safe; a handsome anti-fascist fugitive (Helmut Dantine) who gets help from her, and kills her when he can no longer trust her; a scientist (Peter Lorre) demoralized by Nazi torture; a stool pigeon (Faye Emerson) and an aviator (Kurt Kreuger) who discovers that Miss Emerson's lover is a Jew. Best scene: General Massey, interrupted at his shaving, trying to accept fatal news with dignity when his face is covered with lather. Best performance: that of Helene Thimig, wife...
Perched on a high laboratory stool, crooning snatches of Beethoven and Mozart, an old man squinted happily through his microscope. Herbert Spencer Jennings, 76, was watching the complex love affairs of some of earth's smallest and simplest creatures...
...places are about the same, maybe a little better in Lansing. But should my Kansas friend decide his penitentiary was not well run, and express the hope that there might be a change of wardens, he would run no danger of being shot if he were overheard, by a stool pigeon...
...seen the Odikro, unconscious, tied in a chair with a long knife thrust between his jaws. The Odikro's blood trickled down the knife, dripped into a wooden bowl. A fourth said he had been handed the bowl of blood, ordered to paint Sir Ofori's stool with it. As the jurors could see, the stool had been painted. Fitted together, these bits of testimony spelled out the ritual of an ancient, sacrificial funeral rite...