Word: racks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wealth. The Du Ponts will be on the right side whichever party wins. They are 'sitting pretty'; and it's worth to them all they pay for it. Business is a two car train. Salesman Smith is selling seats in his car, and advertises the added attraction of a rack for the hip flash on the side of the bench to obviate the necessity of having to stoop down to get it from under the bench; otherwise, business might as well ride in the Republican car. It doesn't make much difference anyway...
...privacy of the telephone is far greater than that involved in tampering with the mails. . . . Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the Government by means more effective than stretching upon the rack to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet...
...Bolshevik-bailers that backs the closing of Ford Hall Forum lists such names as Dean Pound, Professor Bliss Perry, and the presidents of Smith and Mt. Holyoke as dangerous, and closes to them lecture platforms in towns and clubs where the black list is law. Dungeons and the rack are no longer good form; a much more subtle toxin does its work among the credulous of this day. The old sport of hushing up any one possibly opposed to the powers that be is revived; its victims are dragged along in a net of prejudice, without even the semblance...
...single folding seat in a recess well forward where the right hand forward seat of a pleasure car would come. The extra room gives the fourth passenger plenty of space for his legs . . . the running board is not wide enough to accommodate a trunk, nor is there any trunk rack in the rear...
...ever kill one? I can't say that I did. I stuck a needle through the back of one's neck and as far as I could tell it was dead. I stuffed it and was using it for a pen rack until it began crawling around over the desk, and I finally had to glue it down...