Word: rackingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From another corner came the sound of "de big bass," and a tall, toothy colored gentleman added a little rhythm to the saxes. Behind a rack of dinner coats came the delicate gyrations of a cornet, and a powerful, perspiring man in his undershirt could be seen literally wrapping himself around his instrument...
...Otto W. Fick, Jr., Robert Fleischer, William A. Garside, Hugh Harwood, John F. Hayward Jr., George M. Kahin, Jr., George V. Kaplan, James T. Kirby, Jr., William A. Macintyre, Jr., Roy W. Moore Jr., Willbur I. Moshenberg, Frederick V. O. Reilly, Gerald P. Rooser, Jr., win Ross, Edward H. Rack, Robin, Scully, Robert H. Shepard, Norman C. Updegraff...
Principal worry of the American Champagne Guild, whose members include the big Finger Lakes producers, is the usurpation of the name "champagne"' by makers of white sparkling wine fermented in tanks.* True champagne must be fermented in bottles, each bottle twisted lovingly in its rack some 200 times for proper sedimentation...
...Norfolk City Auditorium. Then he graduated to the biggest wind instrument of all, the Sousaphone (see cut). From H. N. White Co. in Cleveland, Father von Schilling obtained a King Giant Sousaphone with a 28-in. gold bell and the standard-sized mouthpiece. The Sousaphone was mounted on a rack so that Stanwurt could crawl into it, huff & puff, while his father accompanied on the accordion. Convinced of his offspring's commercial possibilities, George von Schilling copyrighted the name "Master Stan and His Sousaphone," induced a costume firm, Lilley Ames Co. of Columbus, Ohio, to provide a $100 cream...
...machine which looked like a cross between a power loom and a punch press. Beside him stood the Tribune's Editor Whitelaw Reid. As Ottmar Mergenthaler lightly tapped out letters on a keyboard before him, Mr. Reid heard the tinkling of brass type matrices falling into place. The rack of matrices was shunted to a bubbling pot of lead inside the machine. As Editor Reid looked on, Machinist Mergenthaler touched a lever and presented him, hot from the mold, with a solid line of type...