Word: stools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well-authenticated account, is Dr-Marie Charlotte deGolier Davenport, perennial lecturer on How to Keep Happy, who boarded a train in Philadelphia, stepped spryly off in Manhattan. Unperturbed by the fact that she had no money, Dr. Davenport made herself at home on a piano stool in the sitting room of the Travelers Aid Society. When newshawks arrived, she spun around on the stool to play a tune called "Dance of London" which she had composed that morning. Then up she jumped, threw a kiss toward the ceiling, cried: "I'm in a different world when you people...
...others in wheel chairs-Whitehousekeeper Nesbitt hastily ordered more dishes brought up, telephoned caterers for more paper napkins, ham, potato salad, buns, pickles, coffee, ice cream. In the East Room the great gold piano, suitably covered, was used as a serving table for angel cake. Mrs. Roosevelt carried a stool into the State Dining Room, mounted it and told the gathering: "I have been very much encouraged by the number of acceptances. . . ." Then she carried it into the East Room and addressed the throng there: "... I was not so sure a year and a half ago so many...
...amazing prodigy appeared in a white dress with tucked sleeves and red velvet bows on both her shoulders.* She made her jerky little bow, hopped up on the piano stool, stretched for the pedals and sturdily began Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Her tone was clear and singing, her energy heroic as she swept into the Presto Agitato. To Mozart's A Major Sonata she brought little grace. But for most of the afternoon young Ruth was in might-&-main mood, sweeping the keyboard with glittering arpeggios, pounding out tremendous chords. Knowing that she usually likes to keep...
...been everything to me. It has been the bed of my erotic joys. It has been the battlefield of my fiercest struggles. It has been the gibbet of my execution. It has been the post of my scourging. It has been my throne. It has been my close-stool. It has been my grave. It has been my resurrection. On the platform I have expressed by a whisper, by a silence, by a gesture, by a bow, by a leer, by a leap, by a skip, by the howl of a wolf, by the scream of a woman in travail...
...Broadway are listed as a real-estate office. He began making books in New York in 1906. In 1908 he joined the "Mets" (Metropolitan Turf Association), a bookmakers' union which disbanded when betting was outlawed in New York. He usually rides in an open Rolls Royce. His stool is No. 1 in the bookmakers' line. Indefatigable, taciturn, phenomenally quick at mental arithmetic, "Long Tom" Shaw is considered so shrewd that his confreres often station their assistants near his slate to observe his odds. When they cannot get in close, they watch from a distance with field glasses...