Word: stools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan have cheered his playing. After hearing him do the solo parts in Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole" under Conductor Paul Paray of the famed Lamoureux orchestra in his first Paris concert, Paris critics said: "Not since the- child Mozart, seated on a pile of music on a piano stool...
...green stockings, oddly swollen, protruded from the pantaloons of a pierrot suit, and his face, painted half red, half white above his lace ruff, under a hat tipped with a pompon, leered dreadfully into the black polished depths of a cheval-glass. Beside him lay an overturned stool. A rope, strung through pulleys, connected his neck with the ceiling...
...likely, said friends of his who, like most young Frenchmen, had read the tales of Edgar Allen Poe. But the police said no to both hypotheses. What had happened was quite simple, they said. Raoul La Chapelle had dressed for the feête, had climbed up on the stool to see himself full length in the glass. Standing so, he had taken hold of the grips, connected to elastic cords, on which he did his daily exercises. He was a great one for physical culture, was he not? Well, and then he slipped off the stool, and the rope...
...perfection. He has married the littlest, tenderest of sprites who ever sat long hours at an easel before "the souls of old painters who saw God and proclaimed him in terms of Immortal Beauty." The many-crowned Professor has become young, eager, full of pretty and silly courtesies. The stool for her feet, the bunch of far-brought snow-drops Like the lover of Hans Andersen's princess he will not have Perella inconvenienced by the dried pea beneath the seventh mattress. And she adores him. May she not serve? "Socks, my dear?" he answers with puckery brow...
Beside the piano rests demurely the very stool upon which sat "that dissolute midget, Commodore Nutt," when he held his once world famous conversation with P. T. Barnum...