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...seventeen he first began to roam; he come way out to Texas a cowboy fur to be, and a kinder-hearted feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock, who had been warned by a stool pigeon of his intentions. Mortally wounded, Bass died two days later. The jail, a null affair built of heavy timbers, was forthwith erected, since crime was obviously getting to be a problem. But after 73 years of waiting for more gunfire. Round Rock decided that Sam's visit had been...
Strictly Business. Perched on his high stool at rehearsals, Conductor Reiner is strictly business. In quiet passages the tip of his baton ticks off the beat with the precision of a stop watch, in fortissimo it slashes the air like a rapier. When a phrase is not up to snuff, he raps sharply for silence, speaks quietly but in a no-nonsense tone, e.g., "I would suggest you play that adagio." When he is pleased, he warms the players' spirits with quick nods of approval...
Tatum for Fancies. Such mastery of the keyboard did not come easily to Oscar Peterson. His father, a music-loving porter on the Canadian Pacific Railway, sat him on a piano stool when he was five and told him to start practicing. From then on, whenever Papa Peterson left on his railroad trips, he laid out practice schedules. If the practicing was not done on his return, Oscar "caught hell." Oscar began to get professional engagements in his mid-teens, but his father never let applause and paychecks go to his son's head: "You're not going...
Upon admission to the college, the freshman is faced not only with the prohibitive list of "Thou shalt nots" but one important "Thou shalt." Every other week, the underclassman must rouse himself for church services. Compulsory chapel is one leg of what Dodds calls "a three-legged stool of religion." The Student Christian Association and the College's own Department of Religion are the other two braces of Princetonian program. A student can contract out of the compulsory chapel only by going to the Dean and saying that he is satisfied by no religious belief and cannot in conscience attend...
Once upon a medieval time there was a juggler named Cantalbert. He was a good juggler. He could stand on one hand on a stool on a ball on a sword, while he twirled a hoop with his free arm and juggled ten balls with his feet. But people paid no attention. They would rather fight each other, or get drunk, or go to a witch-burning. If he were an ascetic, thought Cantalbert, perhaps Heaven would send him an audience. So he made himself a hair shirt and juggled in that, but, except for a few other ascetics, nobody...