Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great anthology is an unusual achievement. It should be a sample box wherein the reader may find sufficient material to form his taste with a view to reading fully those authors whose works attract him. "The Copeland Reader" and now "The Copeland Translations" fulfill this ideal because they represent the choice of an epicure in literature. The popularity of the earlier volume, among young and old, was heartening to anyone interested in the dissemination of great writing. This supplement in translation should find equal favour...
Ford. In Detroit Edsel Ford received a letter threatening death unless $5,000 was left on the back porch of a home in the city's northeast section. The money was duly left in a candy box. A tenant nearly ruined the case by picking it up by mistake. Soon, however, Edward Lickwala, 20, son of a onetime Ford worker, appeared to offer Federal agents information. He gave more information than he intended. Arrested, he quickly pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years in Leavenworth...
Nowhere else is such an overwhelming majority of voters passionately resolved to stuff the ballot box as in the Saar. This smoke-smudged cockpit of coal and ore, priceless in wartime, is a prize worth cheating for. On Jan. 13, 1935 Saarlanders who are over 20 years old and were Saarlanders on June 28, 1919 will vote to decide whether the Saar shall remain under League of Nations rule, unite with France or reunite with Germany. Last week the League's long-suffering Commissioner for the Saar, His Excellency Geoffrey Knox, totaled up the number of Saarlanders...
...true social satirist--is in this definition: "One of the few lines left can be drawn between women who can be bought by the advertisers or not." "The Victorian Peeresses would have rather sold themselves in private," Mr. Leslie informs us, "than given their faces away with a box of cream." O tempera! O mores...
...steel box car costs...