Word: racks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PIECES-North 3-1- Doubleday, Doran ($3). In Grimm's more lurid fairy tales one reads of ogres chopping off legs and arms to make the body fit a pallet. In circles of Dante's Inferno, and in histories of the Spanish Inquisition, are the rack, the wheel, ingenious machines of torture. In Pick Up the Pieces a victim reports the filthy straitjacket, instrument of torture in a modern, real-life insane asylum. North 3-1,-that was the number of his ward in the last institution he attended- is now a successful publicity director...
Four Chinese soldiers armed with Mauser pistols stand on the running boards and cling by means of hand grips to the Packard sedan of President Chiang Kaishek. For good measure two more yellow-guards sit on the trunk rack behind, holding rifles with fixed bayonets...
...months they had awaited last week's concerts. It seemed only meet that Toscanini should realize it but he accepted his thunderous ovation a little impatiently. He turned his dapper back as soon as he decently could, tapped smartly on a cellist's music-rack and began the business of the evening...
When Louisine Waldron Elder was a young girl, she liked pictures. Particularly did she like pictures by Edgar Degas of be draggled and rhythmic danseuses stretching their weary tendons upon the ballet rack, pirouetting with a one, two, three and a pas-de-bas to the tattoo of the master's baton. Louisine saved her pin money, watched it swell to $100, took her hoard to a friend, Mary Cassatt. Mary Cassatt took it to Degas, bought a pic ture, the first to enter an American collection. "I sadly needed that money," said Degas...
More than a rack of test-tubes ? a retort! Seething humanity smothered the Derby. Confetti and torn telephone books snowed. A placard and its prancing bearers proclaimed: "Remember November sixth ? beer!" The swarms of children grew prodigious. Cautioningly, anxiously now the Derby waved. One child run down would cost thousands of votes, perhaps millions. Yet swarming imps were every where, all yelling and grinning, a few tying to the Derby's car tin cans which other imps snatched off, pummeling the tin-cantiers...