Word: stooling
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...After years of waiting, his song and dance man hears the knock of opportunity on the door that leads to Broadway success. Failing miserably in his tryout, he enters business to pay a debt. Three years later, a completely successful man of affairs, he climbs down from his office stool and returns to the vagabond life of the meaner music halls...
Immediately thereupon arose an interesting legal point. The old law, still on the statute books, commands that any person so convicted be ducked forth-with upon the town ducking stool. Unfortunately for a strict observance of the letter of the mandate, however, all Phillipsburg's ducking stools were either in museums, which refused to give them up, or else had long since been smashed into kindling wood to light Phillipsburg fires of a winter morning. The Judge was in a quandary. The law commanded him in unmistakable terms to have the malefactress ducked; on the other hand, even a judge...
...vaudeville show into town last night. .' . . Mr. de Pachmann favored his audience with an almost continuous monologue, addressing little speeches to them between his numbers and commenting on his performance as he went along. He registered comic despair when he found difficulty in adjusting the piano stool to his satisfaction, gestured elaborately between phrases, grimaced, scowled melodramatically and indulged in various other monkey shines...
...world is about to sit in on the solution of the ancient problem of what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable barrier. Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine heavyweight boxer, has demonstrated his irresistibility on several notable occasions. William Harrison Dempsey, American heavyweight, has sat immovable on the stool reserved for world's champions since July...
Since the time of lay and Franklin, the ministerial wages have not been raised. The traditional equipment of a consul's office, a stool, an alarm-clock, a cat, and a cuspidor, does not inspire an ambitious man with optimism. "Cabbages and Kings" present a consular paradise which might appeal to some; but at present, none can afford to enter the foreign service without private means. Adventure, travel and hard work may suit a young man for a short time, but unless more material incentives are provided, a permanent, expert staff cannot be maintained...