Word: stooling
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...pictures, "In This Corner. . .", a glimpse of a negro welterweight hunched on his stool under the shadow of his handlers while the referee howls out the announcements, and "The Neighborhood Champ," a picture of an ugly plug climbing into the ring while his uglier friends cheer, deserve especial attention. Mr. Riggs has succeeded in catching excellently the impact of the environment on the different personalities, the tenseness of the fighters, the nonchalance of the handlers, and the exhibitionism of the referee...
...that her son has married his daughter. When Hannah Bell at last finds out why the banker's pride forced him to leave her, she wanders stonily to a park bench, contracts pneumonia, recovers in time for tearful reconciliations all around. Good shot: Hannah Bell hunched on a stool clipping coupons...
...Conductor Bernardino Molinari, 54, displeased her. Molinari kept his temper at rehearsal but last week's performance was too much for him. The Concerto, Beethoven's First, had ended and he had left the stage. But not little Ruth Slenczynski. She stayed firmly planted on her piano stool, tossing off encore after encore even after Richard M. Tobin came on stage to present her with a string of pearls from the Orchestra Association. Backstage Conductor Molinari snatched up his hat and overcoat, started for the door muttering: "It's an insult to the orchestra, the most confounded...
...onetime Socialist-editor of The Nation, Paul Blanshard, who has lately distinguished himself as director of a civic committee. As helper he will have a 31-year-old lawyer, Irving Ben Cooper, who became one of Samuel Seabury's favorite aids because he unearthed the sleazy Tammany stool pigeon whose trick was to make honest women look like prostitutes...
...little girl was Ruth Slenczynski, 8-year-old prodigy from Sacramento, Calif., who had just returned from three years in Europe. And when she had flipped up her dress, wriggled up on the stool and stretched down for the pedals, the audience knew that it had not been fooled at all. Her hands could barely span an octave but they sounded chords which were rich and strong. Beethoven's Pathétique needed more sweep than she could give it. Once in the Bach her right hand was not quite sure what her left hand was doing...