Word: rack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practical for a big family!" remarked King Albert of Belgium, gazing upon the luggage rack of a cheap five-passenger U. S. touring car at the Brussels motor show. King Albert, father of Leopold, Charles Theodore, Marie Jose, drives large Minervas, rides motorcycles...
...underneath the curtain was a rack of beautiful silver hip flasks and the word went round they were filled with Scotch or something and 'help yourself.' A considerable number of the gentlemen there did help themselves. . . . Senator Smoot was present . . . and was as much disgusted with that booze party as I was. I do not want to put any intimation that he took one of those flasks or used liquor because he did not. . . . Senator Gooding [of Idaho, since deceased] did not take one of those hip flasks and neither did I. As to whether the other boys did, they...
...bore no resemblance to the proud, satanic figure of Bodanzky. Like a precocious, shy, near-sighted schoolboy he came out from under the stage, wangled his way almost apologetically through the string-players, bowed to a cordial hand-clapping. Out went the lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there an attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless...
Declared Senator La Follette, after citing other news accounts of executive sessions: "If Mr. Mallon is to be put on the rack and grilled, all newspaper men guilty of publishing executive session news should be broken on the wheel...
...dollars in the form of a loan to Germany, in order to enable her to pay off England and France so they can build a few more cruisers and submarines, to be used in an Anglo-French entente against the U. S. he'd be put on the rack...