Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from daily papers wanting to know who Herman Strutter is. Postal cards addressed to Herman Strutter from clipping bureaus, stating that for 10 or 25? they will send him an item of interest have been received. Wise Perry post-office employes place Strutter's mail in the Herald box. Climax was the receipt of advertising from artificial limb companies...
...aisle went to that organization's defense. Meanwhile courts in Missouri, New York and Wisconsin continued to pull more legal feathers from the Blue Eagle's already skimpy tail. In New Orleans Senator Borah's nephew, Judge Wayne Borah, refused to grant an injunction restraining a box company from alleged violation of the lumber code, pointedly added: "Personally, I believe the whole NIRA is unconstitutional." The Senate Finance Committee, whose Chairman Pat Harrison had maneuvered an NRA investigation out of unfriendly hands into his own, was already committed to major changes as it began hearings...
...drinks. His only hobby is curio collecting. Every evening from 7 to 8 he sits with his curios. Sometimes he will set out a rare piece he has recently acquired and leave it out for a few days, but after that it goes with the others into a big box...
...Although several fortunes have been made from my picture," said he last week, "nobody was thoughtful enough to send me even a box of cigars...
...boxes, in the corridors, in the offices backstage and in every dingy dressing-room last week the old Metropolitan Opera House seemed haunted. Over the boxes hovered the ghosts of the old New Yorkers who in 1883 built the Metropolitan, established it as Society's showplace. Great singers long dead seemed to have gathered in the wings as a reminder that the Metropolitan owed them its world-wide prestige. In the corridors it was easy to imagine the small erect figure of Otto Hermann Kahn, carnation in buttonhole, a quick shrewd word for everyone. No ghost was big Giulio...