Word: stools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Activities included many a beer, dancing, attempted petty larceny of a radio and a bar stool...
...minor prisoners sentenced to jail instead of Death seemed to be mildly picturesque stool pigeons and one, Comrade Vladimir Volfridovich Arnold, had been on two occasions a private in the U. S. Army, so he said. "I was born illegitimately and remain illegitimate and have acted like an illegitimate," cried Arnold in court, "but it is not my fault but the fault of Tsarist society, which, unlike the Bolsheviki, who do not recognize illegitimacy, never gave an illegitimate a chance of becoming a decent citizen...
...interested in seeing him captured. When Pete found favor in the cold blue eyes of Thelma, a restaurant hostess, new worries beset him: Thelma loved to manage people, and thought she knew how to get him out of his mess. She tried to do so primarily by confiding in stool pigeons. Pete learned that her best friend was an ex-street-walker with whom he had once lived, and jealousy gave him the worst headache...
...mammoth public school system hires 13,000 teachers, educates 460,000 pupils at a yearly cost of $71,000,000. Few U. S. educators, however, feel any strong urge to rule it. Peppery, fox-bearded Superintendent William McAndrew (1924-28), born in Ypsilanti, Mich., was constantly bedeviled as a "stool pigeon of King George" by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill'') Thompson's "America First" campaign. His successor, William Joseph Bogan (1928-36), spent most of his term in the morass of teachers' "payless paydays." Last week Chicago's Board of Education, looking for a successor...
Idea for a stool came to him five years ago when he was given a concerto by Composer Antonio Scontrino who made such technical demands that few double-bass players have dared to wrestle with it. Waldemar Giese was not to be daunted...