Word: stooping
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...delicious menace of that word has been long savored by people who have yielded to the importunity of a megaphoning bus-starter and have ridden THROUGH CHINATOWN FOR $1. On such rides they beheld Orientals going and coming in the streets, with the short scuffling step and the furtive stoop which they have borrowed from the cinema. They scrutinized the houses of these yellow men? miserable places for the most part, tenements, tumbled shanties, bars, and chop suey joints, all dingy, or garish, not one of them revealing the least hint of that exotic magnificence without which, as everyone knows...
...election, although the Government's lease of political life does not legally expire until next year.? It was the opinion among certain opposition sages that the Premier would be obliged to use his threat; for it was and is thought improbable that the Conservative Senators (majority group) will stoop to swallow the pie made for them by Chef King. The latter may repeat in vain that there is no pie like his, be it ever so humble...
...Johnson, however, was known to have removed ladies' shoes. At a dinner table he would absently stoop down and twitch off the slipper of his dinner-partner, says Thomas Babington Macaulay...
...play They Knew What They Wanted (TIME, Jan. 12), in which your critic refers to San Francisco as "Frisco." Should this be quoted from the plays program, all is forgiven (as far as far as TIME is concerned); but should it not be, please do not allow TIME to stoop...
Medal and its concomitant $25,000 cash prize. After a flaming peroration, Mr. Davis turned to the tall, grave, stoop-shouldered Englishman by his side, introduced him formally to the company and tendered him medal and check. Long and hearty was the applause that followed; long, able, accurate the speech that Lord Robert then made in reply...