Word: hatracks
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...Hatrack & the Countess. When Henry Mencken fought the Watch & Ward Society and was arrested in Boston for selling the issue of his American Mercury that contained the story of a casual prostitute called Hatrack (she took her customers to cemeteries*), Mencken retained Hays. When the Countess Cathcart was denied entry to the U.S. because she had had an affair with the Earl of Craven (the Earl was admitted without a fuss), Hays was at her side. In his autobiography, City Lawyer, Hays recalls that when the Countess was brought before a deportation board of inquiry, she asked: "But haven...
...instance, there was the spring day in 1926 when H. L. Mencken strode onto Boston Common, and in the presence of 2,000 cheering students, his two attorneys, and the Boston vice-squad, accepted a marked half-dollar from the Rev. J. Frank Chase in payment for the "Hatrack" issue of Mencken's American Mercury. The police and Chase's Watch and Ward Society had placed the issue under the ban because the short story "Hatrack" concerned prostitution in a small town...
...thoughts of Mr. Gropius, This cosmic hatrack is the dopius...
This cosmic hatrack is the dopius. T. A. Lehrer...
...Educating Archie, Ray's a Laugh and Take It from Here, the labored pun flourishes even more richly than in the U.S. (sample: "What are we hunting for?" "Herd of deer, my lord." " 'Course I've heard of deer-big things like horses with a hatrack on their foreheads...