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Word: box (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stars are overpaid. He said: "Take Mae West--she was the whole attraction in her picture, 'She Done Him Wrong.' The picture took in about $2,500,000; and yet Miss West probably received less than two per cent of that figure. As long as she brings in the box receipts, she should get the money; because in ten years probably no one will know who Mae West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conrad Nagel Compares Film Actresses to Meat Finds Bogey Men and Thugs too Active in Park | 11/22/1933 | See Source »

...uncommon to find men who are taking two heavy laboratory courses, a Physics course with a reasonable laboratory, period, and some reading course for distribution; such an individual will spend his mornings rushing from the lab to a lecture and back; he will eat his box lunch in Mallinckrodt, where the rest of his day is passed; he will then return to spend the evening over work for any or all of his four courses, or in preparing for one of the frequent science course quizzes, and will finally drop into bed with the loud ticks of the alarm clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON | 11/22/1933 | See Source »

Fijth-you further state that "when I found the Fergusons had horned in on a party of mine last week that I stomped away and did not return to the box until they had gone." This is entirely erroneous, has not a semblance of truth and is another injustice to the Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1933 | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...Rangers moved on to Chicago to play the Black Hawks. For roughness, that game made the Toronto affair look like a tea party. Thirteen players took turns in the penalty box, mostly for tripping and roughing. Both sides played recklessly brilliant offense, but the goaltending by Chicago's Chuck Gardiner and New York's Andy Aitkenhead was more brilliant. Of innumerable smashing attacks only one got through for a goal-against the Rangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...situation in the press box above the colonnade is even more unfortunate; its designers chose to leave it bereft of lavatories. Since those on the ground level are practically inaccessible, the prevailing condition is approximately equivalent to that enjoyed at the campsites of savage tribes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AMICUS CERTUS IN RE . . ." | 11/16/1933 | See Source »

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