Word: racks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counties, city employes scouted for authentic properties to transform a bandstand in the Park into a "tonsorial emporium" of the 1890's. They dug up three old barber chairs, Police Gazettes, a coal stove, a flyspecked clock, pictures of John L. Sullivan, Jim Jeffries, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, a rack of shaving mugs, a mustache curler, charts showing styles in mustaches, whiskers and such haircuts as the Saratoga, Newport, Elite, Square and Senator. With these they set the stage which was decorated with green & pink walls and flanked with tall striped barber poles...
When I wrote myself barren, I went down to the presses to see if I could not find further inspiration to fill out the final four inches of the column. Fumbling nervously around the presses I was thrown into violent contact with this appropriate block-head "On the Rack." The odds are three to one that you have never seen this before but I swear on my word of honor it is supposed to be a regular column of the CRIMSON...
...Washington's Evergreen Kennel Club dog track, while the rest of the field of greyhounds as usual chased the mechanical rabbit vainly around the track. Mignonette, a novice bitch, tore off in the opposite direction and met the rabbit headon. Mignonette tore the fluff lure off the moving rack and the rest of the field pounced on it. The race was canceled...
From active service on the dangerous seas of the Spanish-American war to an obscure exhibit and improvised coat rack, might be the thumb-nail history of the swivel gun now located in the basement of the Freshman Union...
...early period, Kokomo followed the frontier tradition. There were shootings, barn-burnings, tar-&-featherings. Somebody stole the elaborate metal hitching rack from the courthouse. Somebody else burned down the courthouse. The railroad came to town in 1854 and 32 years later Kokomo had its industrial revolution with the discovery, in the vicinity, of natural gas. Kokomo changed from an agricultural depot to a thriving manufacturing centre. After Elwood Haynes made his first successful run with his horseless carriage on July 4, 1894 at Kokomo, the town became Indiana's Detroit. There Haynes located his plant and there also...