Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winner of the tournament and one of the best match players in the world, who was refused permission to tee up his ball on opening day because his P.G.A. dues ($35) were 48 hours late in reaching the Association's secretary. Whereupon 50 of his colleagues -mostly box-office headliners-refused to play, held up the tournament for two hours while officials and players wrangled...
...Mack Sennett gagman, and baldish Robert Riskin, who got into the movie business when a shirt manufacturer he was working for decided to take a flier in shorts. During the six years they worked together for Columbia, Capra & Riskin turned out a dazzling string of critical and box-office successes, Lady For a Day, Broadway Bill, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It With You. They won their share of Oscars and some of the biggest money in the business. Last year they parted when Samuel Goldwyn offered Riskin...
...side of the throat against the larynx. These gadgets transmit the sound vibrations to the larynx, so that the sound comes out of the throat as if produced there. The sound is shaped into speech by mouthing the desired words. Thus a grunting pig, relayed through the human voice-box, can be made to observe: "It's a wise pig who knows his own fodder...
...away with the secretary, the architect made ready to send his son to Europe, "in search of my lost youth." But the play had a bad case of third-act anemia, for which the authors last week were preparing transfusions. Ladies and Gentlemen pleased San Francisco, may make good box-office on Broadway because of: 1) its stars, 2) its Hecht-MacArthur gags. Sample (by a frequently-pregnant woman): "My husband says I'm better than an honest slot machine...
...pickle business is peculiarly sensitive to depressions and unemployment. Reason: its steadiest consumer is the working man who likes a pickle in his lunch box...