Word: racks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music that the New York Baby Orchestra made. Round Monte Collins was so young and unsteady that he kept falling off his chair. Little Marie ("Peewee") Jarecki, her hair frizzed and beribboned to suit the band's Lord Fauntleroy uniform, could not resist pulling her music rack to pieces and peeking through it at the audience. Curly-headed Ronald Liss had to leave the stage several times. But even the smallest players had learned enough about music to read notes with a fair degree of accuracy, to beat good time when their turns came to climb...
...visit Parts, that "siren city" in his mother's eyes. Here under the guidance of will Rothenstein, he saw the world of Manet of the Meulin Rouge and of the restaurant Jupien which demonstrated its aristocratic patronage by a drawing of ladies and gentlemen hanging corenets on a coat-rack instead of hats...
...Hosiery will show women how silk stockings are woven. Quaker Oats Co. will steam, roll, pack 100 cases of breakfast food per hour. Only inactive spot will be the airy, peaceful TIME-FORTUNE building, carefully designed as "A Place to Sit Down" and containing the world's biggest rack of current periodicals...
...buck & wing. A bedspring rises on end. Mickey twangs the strings and it becomes a harp. Anything may take on life and humanity, express itself. A singing bird does its scales like a tyro, gulps, quivers and heaves like a diva, perches on the sheet music on the piano rack and turns the pages. The dog chases the cat through a clothes wringer. Both come through flattened out like sheet iron, go leaping on, smack into a fence which jolts them back into three dimensions. Nothing in a Disney cinema is ever entirely dead, nothing ever dies, nothing is impossible...
...made president in recognition of the fact that in the last five years he has doubled Fierce-Arrow's share of sales in the fine car market. This spring the company produced mainly for exhibition purposes a $10,000 "Silver Arrow" model without exterior gadgets (spare tires, luggage rack, etc., etc.), with enclosed wheels and scientific streamlining to reduce wind resistance 35%, hailed as forecast of the cars of 1940. Fierce-Arrow is not affected by the receivership of Studebaker which owns a block of Fierce-Arrow stock, for Fierce-Arrow has its own capital structure, no outstanding bonds...