Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soviet Congressmen shook their fists at the diplomatic box last week when the German and the Polish charges d'affaires remained seated as Bolsheviks rose and burst into the Internationale. Afterwards German Charge d'affaires Dr. Fritz von Twardowski snapped: ''I had no right to participate in a demonstration for or against Stalin or any other Soviet leader. I consider my failure to rise fully justified in that the Red anthem was sung not as a part of the formal program of the Congress but as part of an ovation for Herr Stalin...
...walks across the dinner table carrying a heaping dish. ("See if you can't take those Brussels sprouts over to Mrs. Dooley without stepping in Papa's plate again!") When his parents displease him he retires to a fully furnished packing-box stockade in the corner of a room, named "Snitzy Arms." ("So you're not living with us any more!") When Mamma loses Philbert in a department store she finds him in the rattrap department, inside a trap. When she loses him at a cinema theatre, the usher finds Philbert stuck to the chewing gum under...
...operated a single sound-camera, each company receiving a print of all pictures taken. The camera, electrically controlled and housed in a soundproof hood, was lodged in the balcony, about 35 ft. from the judge's bench. A microphone was hidden behind an electric fan over the jury box...
...Braibant's story is the old one of the vampire mother whose dominating ways kill any nascent sense of independence in her children. The "iron" mother, Marlise Bertaud, gets her tremendous power through avarice. She worships at a strong box, spends her evenings balancing her accounts, is as shrewd as a Chinese banker in lending petty sums and collecting five per cent, no more, no less...
...eight scores. Crimson lines seemed to work smoothly with Dewey playing at right wing part of the time being the only change from the announced order. The Freshman line of last year appears to be playing efficiently again while Hallowell again spent two periods in the penalty box. Only six penalties were called during the whole contest, with those equally divided...