Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banjo-eyes and the best publicized legs in England. Her father was a tailor. Her brother, Billy, was a fisticuffer who claimed the lightweight championship of Europe. At 15 Jessie Matthews left school to become a chorus girl in the London edition of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, has since appeared mostly in Charles B. Cochran productions. She visited the U.S. in the chorus of two Chariot Revues, appeared in Earl Carroll's Vanities, starred in Wake Up and Dream. Her present husband is John Robert Hale-Monro ("Sonnie Hale"). They were married in 1931 after Sonnie...
...began next day when Managing Editor Walker at the Mirror began to receive congratulations. First box of cigars came from Lucius Morris Beebe, dandified columnist on the Herald Tribune. Second came from Edward Pierce Mulrooney, onetime New York City Police Commissioner, now chairman of the State Liquor Control Board. A wry telegram from Reporter Forrest Davis read: CONGRATULATIONS STOP GLAD TO SEE YOU ARE AT LAST UP TO YOUR LEVEL...
...years, and the last million-car year at River Rouge was 1930. Last year Mr. Ford had a head start over Chevrolet, which was delayed by the tool & die strike. Yet in combined truck and passenger car sales Chevrolet again nosed out Ford. The most famed U. S, industrial box score (estimated for 1934 on eleven-month domestic sales) reads as follows...
...Once at the Rouge works, where sitting down is not encouraged, Superintendent Sorensen spied a workman squatting on a box fiddling with a length of wire. Up strode Mr. Sorensen, kicked the box from beneath the workman. When he got to his feet, the workman knocked Mr. Sorensen to the floor. "You're fired!" said Mr. Sorensen as he in turn uprose. "The hell I am," yelled the workman. "I work for the Bell Telephone...
...floes on a stage at Troy, N. Y., ascended to heaven on a telegraph wire. All her life Mrs. MacDonald has been sitting sweetly through performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin. When the play has been given in Boston, Mrs. MacDonald has always had the best box, been reported crying softly during the death scene. Last week she listened demurely while officials of ERA invited her to grace their show. Then "Little Eva" shook her white head, stamped her spry foot. Stormed she: "I'm tired of the old play. I don't care if I never...