Word: stools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young U. S. citizens aspired last week to the publicity, if not the glory, achieved by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his emulators, Messrs. Chamberlin and Levine (see above). In Newark, N. J., one aspirant, Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly affixed a restaurant stool to the top of a 50-foot flagpole rising atop the St. Francis Hotel, then sat down on the seat...
...Kelly's theory was that if he thus roosted in mid-air for eight days his reward would be great.* Meanwhile he reaped a small reward by displaying from his stool a banner with the stark device: Baby Peggy at Loew's State Theatre...
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...care to renew for the same reason that I do not care to eat, perched on a stool. You have succeeded admirably in dishing up a mental fare that is devoid of all the things or elements except the chemical ingredients of information...
...apparently trying to foster a habit of "newsing," which is to reading as feeding is to dining. Your ideal subscriber is the snappy chap who rushes into a feeding place, glares because no stool is vacant, spots the man who is up to pie, takes his stance behind him, elbows rivals for the vacancy out of the road, barks his order at the waitress, pulls TIME out of his pocket, and then for 15 minutes glues his eyes to the page while his right hand automatically pokes grub into his mouth to be gulped down in hunks...