Word: stools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Herriot, his lame leg resting bandaged upon a stool, fidgeted, looked uneasy. The following day, he roundly assailed the Vatican, repudiated M. Briand's advice, said that he had made a decision and would stick by it. (Tremendous applause from the Left benches...
...Some 88 years ago, in Martin's Ferry, Ohio, there arrived a boy whose Welsh father and Irish-German mother caused him to be called William Dean Howells. The boy played a little, went to school a bit, then learned to sit long hours on a high stool in a printer's shop setting type. When he could, he went home and sat alone "in a windowed nook under the stairs," tirelessly schooling himself in literature, languages, composition. He loved his family with a deep reserve; he guarded his thoughts; he pursued youth's ideal of beauty...
...rear wall consisted of a sheet of plate glass end-on to the room, an "S"-shaped strip of celluloid, all against a background of awning stripes. A little red balloon hung in front. A rug-covered box served as divan. Two cups and saucers lay on a stool-a home-like touch...
...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...