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...bore no resemblance to the proud, satanic figure of Bodanzky. Like a precocious, shy, near-sighted schoolboy he came out from under the stage, wangled his way almost apologetically through the string-players, bowed to a cordial hand-clapping. Out went the lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there an attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless...
Declared Senator La Follette, after citing other news accounts of executive sessions: "If Mr. Mallon is to be put on the rack and grilled, all newspaper men guilty of publishing executive session news should be broken on the wheel...
...dollars in the form of a loan to Germany, in order to enable her to pay off England and France so they can build a few more cruisers and submarines, to be used in an Anglo-French entente against the U. S. he'd be put on the rack...
...PIECES-North 3-1- Doubleday, Doran ($3). In Grimm's more lurid fairy tales one reads of ogres chopping off legs and arms to make the body fit a pallet. In circles of Dante's Inferno, and in histories of the Spanish Inquisition, are the rack, the wheel, ingenious machines of torture. In Pick Up the Pieces a victim reports the filthy straitjacket, instrument of torture in a modern, real-life insane asylum. North 3-1,-that was the number of his ward in the last institution he attended- is now a successful publicity director...
Four Chinese soldiers armed with Mauser pistols stand on the running boards and cling by means of hand grips to the Packard sedan of President Chiang Kaishek. For good measure two more yellow-guards sit on the trunk rack behind, holding rifles with fixed bayonets...