Word: racks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas in 1904-08. Fraternity records show that he got the ice cream course eliminated from the house menu, tried and failed to have only one orchestra instead of two hired for the spring lawn party, outlawed gambling in the chapter house, opposed motions to install a stein rack and to discontinue "Dr. Wilbur's Bible lessons." No niggard, however, Alf Landon gave the fraternity a cuspidor. No "Christer," he downed his beer with other members of Theta Nu Epsilon, oldtime campus drinking society. In his one year of academic study and three years of law, Alf Landon...
...Oscar Hammerstein II-Jerome Kern musicomedy of 1927 and an indifferent part-sound film in 1929. The latest cinema version, instead of following the Ferber book, magnifies the stage show, adds three new Kern songs to a score which still rests on many a U. S. piano rack...
Merton Hodge's "The Wind and the Rain" blows in frenzied gusts across the Peabody stage, and leaves one touched by its graceful play of emotions, and gently stirred by its restrained passions. This is not a play to convulse the spectator with vicarious woe, nor to rack his brain with subtle problems of mind and soul. It rather wins his benevolent sympathy for the characters who are ruffled but not torn...
...woman stretched on a rack of suffering . . . enduring the torture of the damned," sobbed Hearstwriter Marguerite Mooers Marshall...
...hours later the two assassins lay riddled with bullets on the floor in a room in San Juan police headquarters. The police story: The two Nationalists, being questioned, suddenly leaped to seize riot guns which were exposed on a rack in an open closet. The police prevented them...