Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body that actually decided Patterson's fate. Every Negro in Alabama knew this. Therefore, the twelve black veniremen in Decatur last week were thoroughly uncomfortable. Judge Callahan was in no mood to put them at their ease. He had a few chairs placed outside the jury box for the Negroes to sit on. When one stage-struck blackamoor vacantly wandered into the jury box, his honor leaned over his bench, barked: "Here boy! Sit over there!" One of the Negroes lost no time explaining that his boss had recently shot himself while hunting, urgently needed him back home...
...most valuable political heritage Huey Long left behind was a set of election laws which gave absolute control to the party in power of every ballot box and polling place in Louisiana. While nobody had ever tested it, it looked as if all the "ins" had to do was pull the trigger and hang on forever. Long before last week's primary it had been decided who among the Long survivors were going to get the benefit of this election device. In view of faithful stooge service, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen was to go to Washington until January...
...spent the summer of 1934 in the Balkans for the purpose of collecting plants and seeds in Bulgaria, Roumania, and Yugo-Slavia. The climate of the Balkan region resembles closely the climate of Boston and it seemed probable that the Balkan strains of such plants as Ivy, Yew, and Box, coming from a climate similar to ours would prove more adsptable here than the more or less tender strains that have already been imported from northern Europe...
Thence to Cock Horse to cat, and I was stung exceedingly, and thence to town and to Shubert to see Water Hampden as Cyrano de Bergerac. By good fortune I did get a box seat at balcony fee--so great was the audience--and by more good fortune did seat aside Miss Williams of "Three Men on a Horse" comedy. A pretty one she is and I did talk to her with great pleasure, all the time her gentleman-friend looking daggers at me which I did pretend...
...Rockefeller children-Abby, John D. Ill, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop, David-have been brought up with Spartan simplicity and considerably less pocket money than most of their classmates. Mrs. Rockefeller has never bothered to own a diamond tiara or a box at the opera. She likes to do her own shopping, and she does most of it on foot...