Word: racking
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...Miss Goldsmith, Assistant U. S. Trade Commissioner to Germany, Mrs. Conger, wife of the Berlin correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, were traveling in a Cologne-Berlin train. Into their compartment jumped Herr Kurt Korthaus, a member of the Reichstag. He objected to the number of bags on the rack. He told the ladies to remove them. They said they were too heavy, suggested that he call the conductor to remove them or do it himself...
...encounters with this problem in the Theatre? It does and it has. Furthermore, the wife follows dramatic tradition slavishly by winning him back with jealousy. The possibilities of this plot petered out some time ago. To rejuvenate it some ingenious genius was required to put his brains upon the rack. Unhappily the German authors and the American adapter seem to have foregone this necessary process. Their play falls, therefore, into the vast field of inconsiderable amusement. It has its bright lines; yet all lines that glitter are not necessarily dramatic gold...
...races run yesterday were postponed from the day before on account of darkness, and completed the list of rack events. The management intends to hold competitions in the field events shortly after the football season is over...
...chapel." This article has brought a vast amount of relief to Cambridge, for terrible as the prospect of compulsory chapel may be, yet it is mild compared with those things which we usually associate with the Ku Klux Klan. Yesterday's rush of people to the Coop's timetable rack will be replaced by a steady stream, larger as the Klan gains power, of customers buying alarm clocks...
These stories are all constructed to portray one theme,--the human being on the rack; on the rack of physical pain, or anguish of the soul or unattained emotion. They illustrate a self-conscious passion, an examination of all of the details of human passion. In fact they constitute the very summary of all of the elements of the subjective...