Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yacht steamed last week through the open gate, breaking a red, white and blue ribbon, but the caisson did not drop behind it. The King in his Admiral-of-the-Fleet uniform led Queen Mary and the Duke & Duchess of York down the gangway to a royal box on the quay. He made a speech calling the dry dock a good thing. Chairman Gerald...
Last week a box came to the Museum from Sir Robert. Shaking with joy, Director Currelly pried the lid off, clawed out excelsior packing, unwrapped a surprisingly small package on top. It contained one quite ordinary and worthless lead soldier. The box held an entire regi ment of ordinary lead soldiers.* Mystified and vexed, Director Currelly popped the regiment back in its box, returned it to Sir Robert without thanks. Observers deduced the mystery's solution: the Royal Ontario Museum had swallowed whole a British newspaper story that the army Sir Robert was sending was the Charles Sandr...
...picture finally tries to deal with them more solemnly. One stormy night when Annie is towing a load of garbage out to sea, she comes on the Glacier Queen, her shaft broken, foundering near a reef. This time Terry behaves like a hero. He crawls into the fire box of the Narcissus to repair the boiler so that the tug can pull the Glacier Queen out of danger. The film ends with Terry recovering from his burns and wear ing a medal. The steamship company has bought back the Narcissus for Annie and she is reconciled with...
...famed stage comedienne might patronize it enough to keep her comfortable. Now, at 63, she is indisputably the most valuable performer in Hollywood. Last year 12,000 exhibitors in Motion Picture Herald's nation-wide poll agreed that her name was worth more at the box office than that of Greta Garbo, Janet Gaynor, Jean Harlow or Mickey Mouse. Her last four pictures have earned an average of $800,000 each-far more than any other star's. She gets a salary of $4,000 a week because she is too good-natured to demand more...
...dreamy employer was groping for. "You think a man is not quite all there if he puzzles you," he tells the electrician just before the temple goes up. "He can't be right in his head if his notion of things won't fit your tool box. As near as I can see it, he thinks you are crazy. How about that...