Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tangipahoa parishioners showed more invention. Only "ballot box'' they provided was a garbage can on Hammond's main street, labeled "Vote here if you want to." On a gallows in the Hammond town square they hanged a two-faced effigy. One face was that of the local Longster, Judge Amos Lee Ponder Jr. The other had a black eye and was labeled: LONG ISLAND HUEY LONG, Every Dog Has His Day. When the sun set on the revolting parishes, Mrs. Kemp had received 5,000 votes. Normal vote...
...picture. The story of The House on 56th Street fails to do it justice. It is a gloomy but only mildly exciting chronicle about a turn-of-the-century chorus girl whose characteristic for being present at deaths by violence makes the house on 56th Street resemble a shooting box. Peggy Van Tyle (Kay Francis) enters it first as the happy bride of a slick young socialite (Gene Raymond). She is on hand when her onetime lover (John Halliday) shoots himself. Sent to jail for manslaughter, she reënters the house on 56th Street 20 years later...
...next two years he booted in 63 winners in 151 races, mostly for the late Lord Beresford. He saw English jockeys copy his "American style." He was exhibited to Mayfair drawing rooms, wore the silks of Edward of Wales, heard the future King shout from the royal box: "Well ridden, Sloan...
...Soap-Box...
...mental defectives, repeaters, and good business men like the famous Al Capone, there seems to be much unwarranted popular sentimentalism over the man who deserves another chance. Certainly not all of our prison inmates ought to be so treated. American penalism knows the extremes of the Florida sweat-box and the steam-heated cosy little chintz-curtained cells of our more modern institutions. The ideal probably is somewhere in between, with more consideration given to the casual, petty, or youthful wrongdoer, and much less to the case-hardened tough-and-proud-of-it thug and gunman...