Word: racks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given subject down cold, cold, cold. It doesn't make so much difference what subject you pick, as long as you know it backwards and forwards. Then, when you tackle a question on the exam, you start your answer by repeating the question on your paper; then you rack your brain for some way of connecting the question up to the subject which you know cold. Having found this missing link, you write that in and then write down all the dope about this pet subject of yours. In most cases the results are satisfactory. One man we know...
...which a row of leather-aproned Italians bend over a rail. One operator holds in his fingers the dozen fish-line strings attached to Don Juan's flexible joints. Another dangles the little peasant girl. When Don Juan crosses the stage, the steady-handed operators exchange their rack of strings with incredible dexterity. Husband & wife, father & son, these operators have been bred in the art of Italian marionet work...
...Rose outpointed her. Again last week Sweetheart on Parade faced such potent mounts as Bell Lee Rose, Roger Selby's stallion King Genius, American Dream, Lady of Lexington. Time and again the judges had them go through their tricks of changing nimbly from walk to running walk to rack to trot to canter at the slightest touch of the rider's finger on the rein. Sweetheart on Parade stepped flawlessly, again took the blue ribbon-the last she will ever win under saddle. Henceforth Mrs. Roth will use her in harness...
...pair of monkeys have recently been added to the collection. There is also a moth eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is falling off, that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University museum and is now used as a hat rack by the students...
...eleventh edition of the celebrated Vanities, a chorus girl abruptly stops kicking her neat legs and begins to scream. In the orchestra pit the music dwindles discordantly to silence. Directors and managers rush out to investigate. Cause of the disturbance is a pretty girl who, cradled on a rack of scenery pipes, is soon let down on the stage and found to be dead. Although attired in one of the production's costumes, she does not belong to the company. Bruised and burned with acid, the victim still clutches a corsage of orchids attached to which is a note...