Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jamboree, waking-up, bellin', tin pan shower, callithumpian, callathumpin'. callathump and cowthump. The serenade includes such noisemakers as tin pans, kettles, washboilers, dinner bells, cowbells horns, gongs, drums, saws, tin cans, shotguns, "horse fiddles" (two rails gratin.tr together), "devil's fiddles" (a plank run through a box), "skonk" (conch) shells and corn-shellers filled with small stones The bride & groom are expected to listen patiently for a bit, then give the cothumpers plenty of cigars, applejack, gin whiskey or beer. If they do not, or if they are definitely disliked by the cowthumpers. the noise goes...
...long tables lined with 40 newshawks; they face the jury box and windows with a view of upper Broadway and the Empire State Building, but are unable to see the witness chair (concealed from them by the Judge's bench...
...Federal courts, unlike some state courts, veniremen may be questioned as a group as well as singly, the judge often taking part to hasten matters. Seldom is more than an hour taken in selecting a jury. Not so in this case. Mr. Steuer approaches the jury box and in a suave, confidential manner breathes an inaudible question, stands stiff waiting for an answer, relaxes when it comes, cogitates gently, whispers another query. Says the Judge: "Mr. Steuer, will you speak a little louder?" More whispered queries. The Judge motions the court stenographers to move their table to Mr. Steuer...
...direct mechanical force, the new robot eases them by hydraulic and pneumatic action. Also it is lighter and more compact than the old robot, since it utilizes the same gyroscopes that actuate the artificial horizon and directional gyros on the instrument board. It weighs 75 Ibs., occupies a box about 1 ft. square...
...expert Cedric Gibbons, the direction of Sidney Franklin and the clever casting of Frank Morgan, who looks a little like Barrymore, for the role of Dr. Krug all help to make the picture a suave and ingratiating transcription, which should repay in prestige what it loses at the box office...