Word: stools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the football game with Princeton, burglars had forced and entered an upper window at Pach's. Hurried or casual passers-by remembered seeing the sacred fence being lowered to the street. On a stool in the studio was found page 26 of the Nov. 1 issue of Life, pinned down with a meat knife. The page contained a sketch showing a burglar, while his colleague comes down their ladder with swag, whispering to a policeman: "Shhh. We want this to be a surprise...
...first time since he fell sick a year ago. Worshipful Master Ralph A. Werthein fell dead beside his radio. William Tennyson of Philadelphia stood in line a day and a night and sold his place for $5. One Edward Johnson of Decatur, Ill. sat on a camp stool in the street all night, bought a good $1 ticket, sat down again in the bleachers and slept through what he had come to see. Deputy Marshal McBride of Utica, Miss, had an argument with James H. Llewellyn at a filling station; Llewellyn drew a knife: McBride shot him dead. Reporter Tsunekawa...
...England town-crier cried false reports, he would be placed in a ducking stool, soused again and again to the applause of those whom he had gulled. Last week many a person in Manhattan chuckled at the thought that perhaps Town Crier Alexander (''The Great") Woollcott deserved to have his pudgy body tied to the end of some modern ducking stool and to be plunged screaming into some terrifying bath. For either Crier Woollcott had broken all rules of good town-crying and good reporting, or John Joseph Pershing had worse than weaseled...
Should this demonstration occur some means for attending to it ought to be devised. The ducking stool was the old time method of dealing with common scolds. Lacking that admirable instrument, we still have the river. Norton E. Long...
...little fences of silence. Twin Beds is partially redeemed by one tune, "If You Were Mine" and by a few seconds of Zasu Pitts as a half-witted servant-girl. Typical shots: a drunk caught in a revolving door; Miss Miller's stage father falling off a piano stool...