Word: stools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...testing was his office; tasting may have been his recreation. The ale tester was supposed to array himself in leathern breeches and proceed to examine the village supply of home brew as produced. This he did by pouring a small quantity of the precious fluid upon an oaken stool, and seating himself there on-or therein. After contemplating the surrounding scenery for a fixed period he would attempt to rise. If the oaken seat adhered to the leathern seat of his breeches the ale was condemned as unfit for consumption-there was too much sugar in it. These notes were...
...ducking stool is altogether too archaic for a college campus, so the University of Detroit is attempting to solve the problem of feminine garrulity by threatening to expel any co-ed who is discovered talking to a man on the campus. The objection of the University authorities is that the inherent conversational abilities of the girls prevents many of the men from attending to their studies...
Prosperous German piano tycoons once battened on the parents of flaxen-haired fräuleins. Each apple-cheeked Lorelei of 1914, required, as her minimum working equipment, a revolving stool, a well-tuned upright, and hundreds of sheets of such saccharine music as Die Unglücklichen Herzen (The Unhappy Hearts). Last week a survey of the German piano business showed how strikingly frauleins and times have changed...
...Raskob's ethical sense is so fine and his general sensibilities so readily aroused, it might be worth while to ask how it happens that he has my mail. Did he himself rifle the mails or did some of his Tammany stool-pigeons...
...Divorced. fMr. McAndrew, able, no stool pigeon, has sued Mayor Thompson for libel...