Word: racks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief while, triumphs. But gradually it becomes apparent that evil forces are struggling within her for expression. Strange notes and rhythms creep in, the melody is tortured with hints of boogie-woogie, until finally, happily, Hazel Scott surrenders to her worse nature and beats the keyboard into a rack of bones. The reverse is also true: into Tea for Two may creep a few bars of Debussy's Clair de Lune. Says wide-eyed Hazel: "I just can't help...
...nonexistent for over five years. A jam band like Frankie's was a big risk for the Savoy, as their clientele was used to small jump bands, whose only virtue lay in six arrangements cribbed from Basic. If Newton's boys started the evening with any arrangements in their rack, there wasn't a sheet of paper in sight by ten. Fortunately the band went over tremendously. Weeks became months. The Savoy jammed and was jammed, nightly...
Quick were Old Gold's silver penmen to start the backfire. Reader's Digest's July issue was still on top of the rack in the bathrooms of American homes when Old Gold hit the newspapers with full-page advertisements...
...ulcers of ten to 35 years' standing. Their excruciating night pains were relieved, and their ulcers disappeared, "rapidly and often completely." Great practical importance of the treatment is that it is cheap. Anybody can use it at home with an ordinary enema can for a container, a coat rack for a prop...
...running in health-fad magazines since 1914, have proclaimed the virtues of a spine-stretching device called the "Pandiculator." The Post Office last fortnight barred the promoter of this fraud from using the U.S. mail. A rectangular box about four feet long, worked on the principle of a medieval rack, the Pandiculator has T-shaped iron posts at each end, one fixed, the other movable on a cable pulley system. To pandiculate, all a gull had to do was lie down on the box, strap his head to the fixed post, his feet to the adjustable one; when he turned...