Word: racks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Back in the Park.) "Kill him! Kill him! Lynch him!" cried angry voices in the crowd around Joe Zangara. The police yanked him to a waiting car into which some of his victims were being loaded. They shoved him onto the trunk rack, mounted guard on the bumpers. The car jerked forward. Joe Zangara fell off. Police threw him back on, held him down...
Thus bouncing around on the trunk rack the would-be assassin of the next President rode first to the hospital to unload his victims, then to Miami's skyscraper jail where he was stripped and safely locked up on the 21st floor...
Last week Denver's leading 'legger, a little grocer named Joe Roma, sat plunking his mandolin in front of a music rack in his home. While a pot of spaghetti was bubbling in the kitchen, some unknown persons called. When they rose to go they filled Joe Roma with so many .38 and .45 slugs that the police could not count the holes...
...trees to pose. We had a grand sort of Englishman with us. 'Hi there,' he would call, 'do you want some nice beads for your wife? Very well then, come down and pose.' I had my armature and clay mounted on the trunk rack behind the car, and worked on that. The heat was awful...
Then Lucy turned up again-poor, deserted, with several children. Paul felt only sorry for her at first, but soon his old passion began to rack him. When Lucy's besotted husband tried to kill her, Paul threw him downstairs, broke his neck, landed himself in a queer, unsaintly pickle. His straightforwardness and Lucy's testimony got him safely through the trial. Death soon removed the temptation of Lucy from him. Ripening but not repining, Paul seemed to those around him a strong and saintly character, though he knew himself still a struggling beginner at his endless...