Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itself and there is a plethora of fish and small game. And don't you believe there isn't ample time to garden, hunt and fish! I have myself lived in a house scarcely better-built than the shack pictured in TIME. It was a four-room box, tar-paper-roofed, and you could throw a cat through the cracks in the walls. We whitewashed it, papered it ourselves, and by the time my mother, a very frail woman, had planted simple flowers, the wretched place looked rather charming. Except for actual ploughing, we raised a garden...
...contains no teeth to protect children from each other, provides no check on the degree of sophistication permissible to picayune cinemaddicts, still encourages lying. If a 5-year-old cinemaddict who has been waiting eagerly to see Jean Harlow in Suzy presents himself at a New York cinemansion box-office when that film is released next week, he may well be refused admittance unless he says he is over...
Switching to Manhattan to found East River National Bank, the doctor was obliged to gamble for new business, began financing money-hungry cinema companies. His sure-fire test of the box-office value of a new film was to show it privately to a group of schoolgirls aged 15 to 20. What they liked he lent money on. Berated once by a bank examiner for having risked $500,000 on Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, he replied: "I think it a better investment than a Liberty Bond." The Kid paid back its loan in five months, and Liberty Bonds...
...Barney Balaban's early experience in the cold-storage business. They were the first to cut dull shots from newsreels, the first to go in for super-colossal theatres. Balaban & Katz became the biggest theatre-chain in the Midwest with more than 100 units and an annual box-office take of some...
...Trees is too improbable a yarn to impress even a hot-weather reader, but its cinematic possibilities are patent. The crudely-drawn celluloid silhouettes in his latest story can be seen through at a glance, but enlarged by Hollywood sound and fury they might well be heard from in box-office terms...