Word: hatrack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fire. Reason: an article, Chastity on the Campus, "by a Co-Ed." Authority: a voluntary agreement between magazine distributors and the Police and Fire Board which acts on citizens' complaints only. Last time the American Mercury was banned in a U. S. city was 1926 in Boston. Reason: Hatrack, Herbert Asbury's story of a small-town prostitute...
Every morning for 50 years Roland M. Smythe entered his musty office at No. 2 Broadway, hung his umbrella on the hatrack, opened the hatbox on his big roller desk and placed his hat therein, brim up. It served as a basket for important papers...
...President, he could alter the course of Government. I do not. I believe that, when put to the test of use, Mr. Knox's platform would remain as shiny and unmarred as the Democratic platform has been. I believe that a new hat on the White House hatrack will change the flow of events little more than a new president of Tel. & Tel. would affect our use of the telephone...
...recital of the twenty or more scenes which comprise the whole of this beggars' opera would be, or ought to be, wearisome. Suffice it to say that there is one called "Under the Bed" in which that rather impolite article of furniture plays a prominent role. A hatrack in one corner, Belladonna enthroned in the other, a succession of male intruders, a bawdy denouement--and the lights fade mercifully. In a trice the stage is re-illuminated to reveal what is programmatically termed the Beauty Chorus industriously kicking away. And here we have an amusing spectacle, for it is quite...
...first glance. Married to Lixlee and enjoying a completely pagan nightlife, he perked up considerably. One night, because he had to tear himself from her arms to go to a dying woman, they quarreled. Pretty soon he began to suspect that somebody else's hat was on the hatrack. His jealousy and shame drove him to drink. Lixlee was diabolically cunning, never let him get any proof, though apparently she took on any handy man, at any hour. If Authoress Canfield is to be believed, Lixlee was not only a nymphomaniac but a sadist; finally she turned golddigger...