Word: stooping
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...Linn Cady, who works the Coolidge farm at Plymouth on shares with the President (it is assessed at $700), seemed more concerned with the chores than the first officer of the realm. Once or twice he puckered his nose when he noticed Mr. Coolidge stoop to pick up something, then walk to a large pile of junk, old iron, odds and ends, between the house and the barn. It developed that the President had salvaged some rusty wire nails...
...what did President Coolidge stoop down in his barnyard...
...appointed legal aid to the prohibition administrator in Minnesota. Now in the Postoffice Building in St. Paul,**** one may go up a narrow hall and into a bare, brownish room. Piles of pamphlets lie on the floor. At one end is a table desk. Behind it sits a slight, stoop-shouldered, mild man with heavy grey mustaches and a bush of grey hair, through which he has a habit of running his fingers. A gold watchchain is twisted through a buttonhole of his dark vest, and dangles a little compass at its end. His collar stands out from his spare...
...Embry is a stoop-shouldered, middle-aged practitioner with greying hair. Onetime, 1907-08, he was intimately connected with government prosecution for using the mails to defraud against "The Boston Medical Institute" and "The Belleview* Medical Institute" of Chicago. These were one and the same firm, using the same office suite but with entrances on different streets to divert suspicion, an oldtime quack stunt. Old Doc Embry uses the same method?"Dr. Embry" on the door of a squalid office for Negroes, "The Parker Health Institute" on a communicating office door for whites. His gyp game is to thrill...
...could hardly imagine a teapot small enough for this tempest. Mutual understanding seems to be circumscribed by a menu card. Be it admitted that great and holy causes are at stake on both sides and that "all is fair in love and war"; yet Mars would hardly stoop to wield a bill of fare...