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...been everything to me. It has been the bed of my erotic joys. It has been the battlefield of my fiercest struggles. It has been the gibbet of my execution. It has been the post of my scourging. It has been my throne. It has been my close-stool. It has been my grave. It has been my resurrection. On the platform I have expressed by a whisper, by a silence, by a gesture, by a bow, by a leer, by a leap, by a skip, by the howl of a wolf, by the scream of a woman in travail...
...Broadway are listed as a real-estate office. He began making books in New York in 1906. In 1908 he joined the "Mets" (Metropolitan Turf Association), a bookmakers' union which disbanded when betting was outlawed in New York. He usually rides in an open Rolls Royce. His stool is No. 1 in the bookmakers' line. Indefatigable, taciturn, phenomenally quick at mental arithmetic, "Long Tom" Shaw is considered so shrewd that his confreres often station their assistants near his slate to observe his odds. When they cannot get in close, they watch from a distance with field glasses...
...Sweet pulled on his operating gloves, Warden Lawes, under a brilliant, shadowless box light, felt a nurse swabbing the sore thigh with iodine. Another swung a table of instruments handy. A Negro artist serving a life sentence stepped up on a stool near the operating table. He had pad and pencil to picture the entire operation. Dr. Sweet jabbed a local anesthetic into Warden Lawes's leg. The Warden winced. The Surgeon sliced. The Warden felt nothing. The Surgeon clamped blood vessels, sliced some more, reached a fibrous capsule which enclosed the "tumor...
...this exhibition certain pieces, such as the Maori ancestor god or the New Ireland cult mask, bear a definite relation to the ethnic type, yet are far removed from realistic sculpture as we understand it. Others, such as the Congo chief's stool or the Congo woman holding a bowl, bear an even remoter resemblance, though dynamic and significant works...
...anxious to abolish the penalty of probation. This tendency is in line with the growing relaxation of parietal control, and it leads, as is proper, to the placing of greater responsibility on the undergraduate. Probation has always had an inherent resemblance to the hickory switch and the dunce's stool, the trappings of Tom Brown education. Its disciplining fear softens the student too lax to depend on his own morale. Its interference with extra-curricular activities dates back to those harsh eras of compulsory chapel and the sideburn...