Word: stools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sweet pulled on his operating gloves, Warden Lawes, under a brilliant, shadowless box light, felt a nurse swabbing the sore thigh with iodine. Another swung a table of instruments handy. A Negro artist serving a life sentence stepped up on a stool near the operating table. He had pad and pencil to picture the entire operation. Dr. Sweet jabbed a local anesthetic into Warden Lawes's leg. The Warden winced. The Surgeon sliced. The Warden felt nothing. The Surgeon clamped blood vessels, sliced some more, reached a fibrous capsule which enclosed the "tumor...
...this exhibition certain pieces, such as the Maori ancestor god or the New Ireland cult mask, bear a definite relation to the ethnic type, yet are far removed from realistic sculpture as we understand it. Others, such as the Congo chief's stool or the Congo woman holding a bowl, bear an even remoter resemblance, though dynamic and significant works...
...anxious to abolish the penalty of probation. This tendency is in line with the growing relaxation of parietal control, and it leads, as is proper, to the placing of greater responsibility on the undergraduate. Probation has always had an inherent resemblance to the hickory switch and the dunce's stool, the trappings of Tom Brown education. Its disciplining fear softens the student too lax to depend on his own morale. Its interference with extra-curricular activities dates back to those harsh eras of compulsory chapel and the sideburn...
...pictures, "In This Corner. . .", a glimpse of a negro welterweight hunched on his stool under the shadow of his handlers while the referee howls out the announcements, and "The Neighborhood Champ," a picture of an ugly plug climbing into the ring while his uglier friends cheer, deserve especial attention. Mr. Riggs has succeeded in catching excellently the impact of the environment on the different personalities, the tenseness of the fighters, the nonchalance of the handlers, and the exhibitionism of the referee...
...that her son has married his daughter. When Hannah Bell at last finds out why the banker's pride forced him to leave her, she wanders stonily to a park bench, contracts pneumonia, recovers in time for tearful reconciliations all around. Good shot: Hannah Bell hunched on a stool clipping coupons...