Word: stoole
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could Be. In London, Stanley Gals worthy, twice before convicted of peeping, was found unconscious beside an over turned stool under a bedroom window. He spent three days in a hospital, then e plained to a police magistrate: "I never took my nerve medicine that day. I must have got excited...
...tiny figure emerged in the morning. Dressed in black, his spindly legs sheathed in Chinese silk stockings, and carrying a green umbrella, Lamb walked placidly to work. He "looked no one in the face for more than a moment, yet contrived to see everything." Perched on his high office stool, he mailed, at the East India Company's expense, the numerous letters written by his youthful friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
...your hide is enfettered to a schoolroom stool...
...prisoner suspected of informing on these heroes the camp had a secret court, judge and jury. "Willful treason" was punishable by death-the stool pigeon surreptitiously dropped through a hole in the ice of the Oder River. Willful disclosure of minor information was punished by six rounds in the ring with the camp's boxing champion. Disclosure through stupidity marked the offender as "utterly dangerous"; he was completely ostracized...
There are three different tests which determine the suitability of a candidate for officership. The first, an eight minute physical efficiency test, has been used here by the Hygiene Department. If consists of merely stepping up onto a stool twenty inches off the ground, and then down again, to the count of "up-2-3-4, up 2-3-4 the command 'up' coming every two seconds." The heart rate is measured immediately afterward and at regular intervals for 3rd minutes, and the rating is determined by a special formula...