Word: stools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They escaped, but from the three in custody, Allied authorities collected names, addresses, information. Police dropped in on a Rome cafe just as the mob was driving away with an Italian civilian who had been acting as their fence. They had marked him down as a stool pigeon and were taking him for a ride. Police captured them...
Next before the bar was Boris Theodos-sienko, a White Russian refugee. He had been a petty stool pigeon for the Gestapo, had circulated through the boites, reported whatever anti-German talk his eager ear could catch. For him, seven years at hard labor, confiscation of property...
...grows to beam size. Janie, one night when the family is out, arranges to vibrate with Pvt. Lawrence in the privacy of her home. Thanks to Scooper, who is mad with jealousy, and to her little sister Elspeth (Clare Foley) who combines the less endearing features of a stool pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy. By the time Janie's parents get home, along with the town police and a batch of MPs, there is precious little home to get to. Janie promptly sweetens everybody's temper with a strong plea...
...phone rang again. The caller was a friend of Peter's mother: Mrs. James Thurber, wife of the humorist-cartoonist. This time Peter was ready. He hauled the piano stool over to the bookcase, mounted the stool and said: "Come quick. Mummy's hurt...
Inside the crowded inner circle, ringed by huts, Anei Kur saw two comely Nubian maidens, his brides. Priests led him through the chanting throng to one of four royal huts before which stood the sacred stool, Kwom. On the stool stood the image of Nyakang. While the proud Shilluks watched intently, Anei Kur seized the stool by one leg. The priests removed the image and Anei Kur was ret. He retired to a royal hut with his two wives. His people gorged themselves on oxmeat and heady merissa, brewed from millet...