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Word: stools (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago board of education voted unanimously, last week, to make placid, bushy-haired William J. Bogan superintendent of public schools. He had been acting superintendent since last August when William McAndrew, famed "stool pigeon of King George," was ousted by Mayor William Hale Thompson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: McAndrew's Successor | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Foundry Co., held a directors' meeting. Mr. Woodin was suffering from a fractured patella; hence the meeting was held in Mr. Woodin's hospital bedchamber where he sat, like a squire with the gout, one bandaged leg propped up in front of him on a cushioned stool. Despite his injuries, Mr. Woodin was capable of declaring dividends of $1.75 on American Car & Foundry's $30,000,000 preferred stock (the regular amount); of $1.50 on its 600,000 shares of no par value common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...years ago a meagre, slight dress maker, she crouched with pins in her mouth at the feet of a fat woman. The client was standing on a low fitting-stool, and from her rotund torso hung the drapes of a negligee that stubbornly would not seem stylish. Dressmaker Lane Bryant sat back on her heels and studied the paunchiness; she stood up and walked meditatively around it. She saw where she could alter the hang, and, stooping over, with swift fingers pinned folds here, there. The negligee fit smartly. Lane Bryant slipped it off her customer; basted it; stitched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stout Women | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...What does Mr. Coolidge think of. . . ." and finally regrets solemnly that the President will be detained for several days in secret conference on the Mayflower, but hopes Mr. Schmaltz will drop in again next time he is in Washington. Unembarrassed by having overheard this White House conversation, Author Lewis stool-pigeons Lowell Schmaltz through interminable monologues. He is then able to present the following data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Mechanistic Ass | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...line drive hit John McGraw in the right ankle which swelled up. McGraw, who had a dancing date that evening, sent out for crutches, had an X-ray taken, spent a day in his room, came down to the field next day with a camp stool, a cane, a crutch, and a megaphone. Later in the hotel he called the squad round him, put them through tactical drill he calls "skull practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Florida Camps | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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