Word: stools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hannibal, Mo., a certain Mrs. Laura Fraser, 90, brown of face and wrinkled, rested her bones on a camp stool and listened to the talk of a college scholar.* He was talking about worthless Samuel Clemens, who raised hob in Hannibal 80 years ago, then took to the river...
...reads the Thousand and One Nights, learns to set type, begins writing prose and verse for Brooklyn sheetlets, the Star, the Patriot. When city life irks?even New York with John Jacob Astor tinkling through it in his sleigh?he leaves his compositor's stool to go down the Island and teach in rural schools?at Flushing, Woodbury, Whitestone. He is loved everywhere, a big gentle lad who joins in at games as soon as the bell rings; and he is content everywhere?for whenever it seems good to him he walks away, down the country roads, over a plain...
...Boston, one B. Tracey Ansell, elongated (6 ft. 6 in.), willowy (165 lb.), youthful (19 years), Harvard senior, aroused curiosity, interest, alarm, dismay, by roosting his exaggerated frame upon a stool in a lunch room and gulping down two, four, half a dozen, a dozen, two dozen, three dozen, three dozen and one, and five, and ten-four dozen soft-boiled (2½ min.) hen's eggs, in 45 minutes. At the 37th egg he choked, gasped out, "That egg was rotten." As the 48th mingled with its predecessors, he unfolded himself, arose, collected...
Helen Wills threw up her hand in a staccato gesture of despair for Tolley's crumbling intellect, his blindness. "Out, out," shouted the spectators, confident that they could see better than Mr. Tolley, whose stool was a yard from the baseline. Possibly the ball was out; possibly the decision kept Miss Wills from winning the greatest match of her life. No one will ever know. Suzanne Lenglen, against whom some equally dubious decision had been called in the first set, ran out the set 8-6, and a moment later was borne from the court on the shoulders...
Next day Ignacio Zuloaga's portrait of Paderewski (including a sky of Zuloaga mauve, a grand piano, the eagle of Poland, and some law books on a stool) was exhibited at the Reinhardt Galleries. Mrs. Paderewski inspected it, apologizing for the absence of her husband. He had bruised his finger in the recital, she explained, and was confined to his apartment under the care of a physician...