Word: racking
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...that . . . slander-monger Drennelthorpe, of the Courier Gazette . . . whereupon Mr. Drennelthorpe would visit the writer with a bowie knife and a hickory cudgel. Every reporter was trained to use a shotgun, and in most composing rooms a portrait of Andrew Jackson looked down with sombre eyes upon a neat rack of buggy-whips. Newspaper men still quarrel. Most of them do so with a certain reticence. Respecting the dignity of their differences, they wage their wars out of sight. But last week the public was astounded to find, in a famed tabloid sheet, a reversion to the vilest of tactics...
...from 11:30 to 12 o'clock noon for the mid-day prayer meetings, many of which were held in the principal places of business. In the very room where S. Glenn Young and Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas staged their final and fatal battle hangs from a coat rack on the spot where Young fell a big poster advertising the Williams meetings. And this historical little cigar store, which is known all over the land by the many pictures published of it, opened its doors at noon along with many other places for a noontime prayer meeting...
...limbs on the desk, a nickel-plated key to a hospital city, a seashell, and a model electric locomotive* a row of reference books, an ash tray, which usually . . . has in it six or more white paper cigar holders, with quill mouth pieces, 'a matutinal bouquet, a pencil rack with ten sharpened pencils, a row of mother-of-pearl push buttons. Another found that the President never took off his suit coat while at work. A third ascertained that he did not like angling, swimming, riding, golf...
...Fencing develops the intelligence, boxing increases the nose," said M. J. S. Danguay, coach of the University fencing team yesterday. He took a foil from the rack that he might illustrate his point and began by head and hand and foil to explain the superiority of the fencer...
...play upon her passions. Men flirt with her, but shun her as a matrimonial hazard. Repression has given her a case of aggravated amorousness. A Russian surgical instrument maker, half genius, half charlatan, who received his early training in the Chicago stockyards, guarantees to cure her with a movable rack, if she will lie strapped to it for a year while her limbs are remoulded nearer to the heart's desire. This Napoleonic upstart, imperious, wilful, has been proscribed by the British Royal College of Surgeons for-bone-setting without a degree; his string of cures being nullified...