Word: stools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political epithets, accustomed as they are to being taken with a counter-epithet or with a laugh, seldom provoke a libel suit. When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...
...everyone knows, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago called Superintendent of Schools William McAndrew "a stool pigeon of King George" and other defaming phrases, both before and after suspending him as superintendent (TIME, Oct. 10 et seq.). Mr. McAndrew treated the whole affair with contempt, walked out of his "insubordination" trial by the school board like a man leaving an ineffectual burlesque show. Perhaps contempt meant "too proud to fight," perhaps there was no great glory in being the martyr of a burlesque show; so last week Mr. McAndrew turned on Mayor Thompson with a legal rapier, sued...
...Reporter Moses Lamson was set upon Negro Crowe's scent. He used skullduggery and pipelines of sly information-police, stool pigeons, private detectives, Pullman porters, servants. . . . Shrewdly he asked the best catch-scamps -doctors-to watch for the villain. The quarry has cancer of the stomach (TIME, Feb. 20, MEDICINE...
...Lampoon rose easily from the camp stool in his office, and greeted me with a firm grip and a twinkle in that...
...first time-a man who, according to Critic Lawrence Gilman, has made All-Bach recitals as popular in the British Isles as cricket matches, a musician with a keen enough sense of humor to tell on himself of the moist night in South Africa when he slipped off his stool and under the piano. They saw him come out on the stage, a little man, one-third fore head and nearly two-thirds shirt front; saw him bow, start to play. A group of Preludes and Fugues, the Partia in C minor, the Toccata in G minor and the French...