Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Owner Bostwick, who was honeymooning abroad, his friends protested bitterly. Nevertheless the stewards barred both horses from the track pending investigation. Turfman Joseph Early Widener* revealed last week what his Hialeah Park in Miami will do next season about the lately virulent dope evil. It will adopt the "dope-box," widely used in France and England, for examination of horses. Before each race is run the stewards draw by lot the number of one entry, keep it secret until the finish. Then that horse, no matter how he finished, is led to a special stall ("dope-box") just...
...short, boyish rightfielder. stepped to bat for his first time in a World Series and bashed a home-run into the right-field stand. Again in the third, Ott (who was to make four hits in four chances) drove in a run, and drove Stewart out of the box. The Giants, whom sports writers had called "the hitless wonders" of the National League, were ahead...
Third Game-At Washington's Griffith Stadium, President Roosevelt & party occupied a box behind the first base line. When President, officials, players, band and photographers were set for the ball- throwing ceremony, the President asked, "Where's the ball?" White-crowned Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis slapped his pockets, looked hopefully at Clark Griffith, owner of the Senators, who looked helplessly at John J. McGraw, vice president of the Giants, who frantically signalled a policeman. The policeman ran for a ball, tossed it to the President. Right arm upraised, President Roosevelt grinned for photographers, then sang out: "All right...
...evening of the fire Marinus van der Lubbe bought packages of patented kindling coal, climbed the outside of the Reichstag building at 9 p. m. and entered a balcony window of the deputies' restaurant. He lit one box of the kindling coal, threw it on a table behind the bar. Next he set fire to a plush curtain, a couple of table cloths and his own shirt. In the men's washroom he had apparently no trouble in causing a pile of used towels and his own vest to burst into flames. Police testimony had shown that...
Next Major van Rolleghem lighted a fierce fire beneath a full fuel tank made of his secret substance. Tank & contents remained intact. He put a box, containing a letter, into a fuel fire. The letter remained uncharred. Then came Major van Rolleghem's finale. He stepped into a boxlike affair supposed to be a cockpit. Gasoline was sloshed against the front wall and ignited. The whirling propeller of a nearby airplane fanned the flames to terrific heat, but they failed to scorch the major...