Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above the British Legation in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in case the Cheap Comedian should send bombing planes to blow Emperor Power of Trinity out of his palace. Punctually at 11:55 a. m. one day last week a pink silk veil covering the Emperor's box in Parliament was drawn aside and the shrewd, sharp-faced potentate addressed his people. He spoke in native dialect. Il Duce said afterward that his actual words as cabled from Addis Ababa by the Italian Minister were far stronger than the flowery official text later released in French to impress world...
...Ginger, once installed in the matron's smart house, is bad copy indeed. She takes an instant dislike to her beauteous, black-haired benefactress whom she insults with or without provocation. She knocks over vases, upsets dinner with her bad manners, complains that "this dump is an ice box," thinks all the servants are waiters. By the time she has persuaded the Parker son (Jackie Searl) that sliding down banisters and becoming embroiled in gutter fisticuffs is more fun than harp-twanging, she is the favorite household pet of everyone except Mrs. Parker. That she finally succeeds in winning...
...Adjourned pondering the advice of Tennessee's Commissioner of Education Walter Dewey Cocking: "Go to your neighborhood or country store and buy a stick of licorice. Then sit down on a cracker box and talk about the things kids like. When a group gathers around the stove in the community store, they've established the true and original forum. Kids get a valuable part of their education from such gatherings. A successful teacher will take part in them...
...next morning got headlines in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph's (Hearst) theatre page. A few days later, flushed by the success of their prizewinner, the same group presented Waiting for Lefty in a local theatre which seats slightly over 600 persons. The performance was S.R.O., and the box-office receipts showed over 900 paid admissions. The play was performed exactly as produced in New York except for damns instead of goddamns. This is ironical inasmuch as anyone who is familiar with the play knows well that the profanity is the least objectionable element from the censors' point...
Tipped off before the bidless box was opened, Premier Hepburn hopped back to Toronto by plane from the bush, where he had been fishing with-of all people- President John P. ("Jack") Bickell of Mclntyre Porcupine Mines (gold), "richest bachelor in Canada," and Manhattan's legendary speculator, Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, who is called a "money magnate'' in the Dominion Press. The Government's counter attack was planned at Jack Bickell's home located at Port Credit. "The financial interests undertook to discipline the Government of Ontario because of its stand on the power purchase...