Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year he clapped on his silk hat like a sombrero and dined formally with the President at the White House. Once a year he returned the President's invitation at his hotel. Outside the Senate he was seen three or four afternoons a week in his reserved box at the ball park or occasionally riding through the streets in the Vice President's 16-cylinder Cadillac bearing the number 111. But if for a time Congressmen thought as the public did, they have since changed their mind, for Throttlebottom has a hand on the throttle...
...their income even when it was only $5,000 a year. She worked, and still, from habit, works as his secretary at the Capitol. They "put by," and their fortune grew. Now they have their 350 acres in Uvalde, including a pecan plantation. In their safe deposit box are said to be mortgages on every church in Uvalde, and stock in many a local bank...
...circulation, he reasons that an additional two billion worth of greenbacks would be amply covered by the nine billion gold & silver reserve in the Treasury. To hear Father Coughlin expound this theory, 18,000 New Yorkers packed into Madison Square Garden's Auditorium. Just before the meeting the box office dropped the price of $2 seats to 50?, thus ruining speculators who had loaded up. Nevertheless, an overflow crowd of 5,000 was waiting before loudspeakers in the basement...
...cold night in 1931, his shabby clothing buttoned tightly about his short, diabetic body, a derelict named Driscoll lay on the floor of a boxcar in Seattle's railroad yards. For days he had hunted work. Weary, he had turned to bread lines, soup kitchens, listened to soap-box orators on corners of the Skidroad.* Deep into his dulled consciousness sank the speakers' catchphrases, their shouts of plenty for everyone, taunts at Big Business, cries that Capitalists were to blame for Derelict Driscoll's wrinkled belly...
...Jean Nelson Penfield, New York attorney and onetime suffragette. National Director is Radio Lecturer Cathrine Curtis who claims she first decided to educate women investors when she overheard a dowager exclaim at a party: "Commodities are like utilities, I mean they are something like options. I have a box full of them...