Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning practically every U. S. paper carried his speech in headlines as the big news of the day. On the front page of the Wall Street Journal, however, was a small box carrying the information: "New York bankers . . . would like to meet the man who could name the total bearable national debt...
...these nervous moments exclaimed to Manhattan Lawyer William Ormonde Thompson, onetime partner of Clarence Darrow: "Damn those Oxford professors! I will send some of our swine to burn down their Oxford!" Lawyer Thompson, duly brought to London from New York last week, declared under oath in the witness box that Dr. Hanfstaengl spoke exactly as quoted. What had wrought Putzy up to speak in this fashion, Mr. Thompson testified, was a reference to the condemnation of Nazi methods by numerous Britons, including some prominent Oxonians. At this provocation not even smelling salts could prevent Putzy from flying wrathfully...
...native lute player; a lion tamer going mad with fear when lions, loose and hungry, besiege him and his shipmates in a cave. A moment not composed by Creelman occurred when Tarzan, 3-year-old trained Nubian lion, was startled by the whir of motors in a hidden camera box while Bickford was lying on the ground in front of him. The beast sank its teeth in the actor's neck, shook him, dropped him, leaped on his prostrate body, stood there until scared off. Nine days later Bickford, with his bandages disguised by makeup...
...treated the thought and character of the great American philosopher and psychologist with respect but with the most commendable objectivity. As it is stated on the box in which the two volumes are contained, he took pains to let James and his contemporaries speak for themselves. His comments are at the same time helpful and interesting in putting William James in his proper place in "the golden day" of American literature and in interpreting the manifold indications of the man's genius...
...clock the Cambridge Fire Department answered an alarm from the box on Boylston Street in front of Eliot House, and at 12:14 they were back in their lair. Blame for the alarm rests on the shoulders of Warren P. Munsell, Jr. '37, a notorious box puller...