Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 8 there will be a meeting of the officers of the Alumni which was adjourned on motion of Josiah Quincy at the bicentennial meeting on September 8, 1836. At that time a box, sealed at that meeting with the contents unrecorded, will be opened. The meeting will then adjourn until September 18 when the entire body of Alumni will convene...
...House Senator Black pilloried obscure Congressman Patton of Texas, smearing him for days with imputations of having accepted a bribe, although all that the Senator was able to prove was that the Representative had been seen to depart from the hotel room of a utility man carrying a cigar box which one witness did not think contained cigars...
...love for the fickle heiress and is forced to chase half way across the country in an effort to intercept it. To tall Arthur Treacher, playing the part of a saturnine and formidable English valet, falls Bright Lights' one bright line. "I posted the letter in the box on the corner," says he, "the one of a sickly green color...
...intending to watch rather than compete, entered with misgiving when the committee asked for volunteers. He sat down, removed his coat, put his straw hat in his lap for a knitting basket, and revealed a smooth head fringed with grey. His prize, when the bee was over, was a box containing 16 balls of yarn...
Page & Shaw. So inordinately fond of sweets was the late teetotaling James Buchanan ("Diamond Jim") Brady that he was known to eat a pound of candy in five minutes. One day he was given a box of chocolates made by a small Boston confectionery named Page & Shaw. "It's the best goddam candy I ever put in my mouth!" cried "Diamond Jim," who vowed he would thereafter buy no candy but Page & Shaw's. Later, according to his biographers, he offered the struggling little candy company $150,000 without interest...