Word: racks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Characteristic of the little torments which University officials invent to rack the pocketbook of thriftless students is the requirement that House members forego not less than a week's meals, if they wish to escape payment for meals which they have missed. If, on the seventh day of the week during which he has declared his intention of buying no meals from the dining halls, a student from afar and absentmindedly orders White Rock and ice in his dining hall, under present rules he is charged for the seven days' meals which he misses...
...known War aces is Capt. W. R. ("Wop") May, a survivor of the epic battle which ended in the death of Germany's famed Baron Manfred von Richthofen. "Wop" May was at Fort McMurray, Alberta, 1,100 miles away, when Constable Millen was shot. He loaded a bomb rack, took off in an army plane...
...critical oracles, aged Philip Hale of the Boston Herald or H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker of the Transcript. Gnomelike Critic Parker thought "this Second Rhapsody seemed tempered and in degree de-natured by reflection and manipulation. It sounded over-often from the study-table and the piano-rack." Said Critic Hale: "The music has decided individuality, which, it is to be hoped. Mr. Gershwin will preserve, and not be frightened into the smug respectability approved by professors of music and easily shocked conservative hearers...
They went down to lunch, Alfonso much put out by the fact that their private dining room was the former billiard room of the hotel with the cue rack still in the corner. They ate wild strawberries and cream...
...Half way to his Rapidan camp for the weekend, President Hoover ordered his car stopped for a picnic luncheon. Over a seven-rail fence the President helped his guests, then followed in two steps. Sandwiches and drinks were brought from the trunk rack, spread under big Virginia oaks. Motorists paused along the highway, gaped at their President having...