Word: racks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Jimmy's has occupied great, dreary, genteel Kensington House at 5 Lexham Gardens. Its ponderous Victorian interior-dark red wallpaper and funereal furniture-is still lit and heated by gas. Among the 20,000 rack-brained heads that have bent over their notebooks in Jimmy's gaslight was Winston Churchill's. In 1893 he "swotted" at Jimmy's for Sandhurst. The headmaster said that Churchill was "able enough, but his mind strayed to other interests, was brilliant at history but sluggish in mathematics and science." The French master wanted Churchill thrown out. But he stayed...
...precision bombing the American Fortresses can ride "in the soup" to their targets, unload bigger bombloads because they have achieved a quality which airmen call "interchangeability"-i.e., they can take light loads to high altitudes over long ranges, or they can cut down their fuel load and have bomb-rack room to load up with explosives. At Emden the Fortress load averaged around four tons each. Extra bomb racks had done the trick, without sacrifice of the Forts' defensive power...
...cummings once immortalized mcsorley's: "Inside snug and evil. ... the Bar tinkling luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead of cash registers, gas lights over the bar, a rack of clay and corncob pipes for free smokes on the house. Under portraits of Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley is a brass plate: THEY ASSASSINATED THESE GOOD MEN THE SKULKING DOGS...
...soon as the weather permits, the House oarsmen will rack out the shells and limber up. The season used to begin the first week after the spring vacation and this year will probably begin around April 5. Baseball and softball should start a few days later...
Except for the armed guard at the door, the khaki uniforms and the rack of chevron-emblazoned coats, the office looks like any other publication's editorial rooms, even to the crimson coke machine and the maps on the walls...