Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beneath it, of late, has been Speaker Saltonstall. So fortunate a fish wouldn't have swum away of itself. Somebody from the gallery prigged it on Wednesday. The ingenious Cantabrigians of The Lampoon and The CRIMSON were at once suspected. There is talk of a youth carrying a long box with Easter lilies sticking out from one end; of other youths smelling of liquor. But codfish begets thirst. Were these the lads to seek an appetizer? With great acumen the police searched the waters of the Charles River Basin, apparently under the impression that the Sacred Cod had transformed himself...
...Paul von Hindenburg ever had such a birthday. Despite his expressed desire to spend the day quietly in his little Alpine cottage near Berchtesgaden he could not avoid the attentions of his delirious followers. They roused him with flowers, they roused him with telegrams, bottles of wine, boxes of cigars (Chancellor Hitler does not smoke, drinks nothing stronger than beer), Easter eggs, Westphalian hams, lumps of sugar for his police dogs. Back in the Chancellery in Berlin the presents came in by the carload. Sofa cushions were the most popular, there were over 1,000 of them; also clocks, books...
...Toronto players went to the penalty box; Lester Patrick, Rangers manager, took out his defense men, sent in forwards to replace them. Butch Keeling took the puck at a face-off, whipped through the Toronto defense on the left side of the rink, made a pass all the way across the ice of which he later said: "If I hadn't seen that Bill was there, I would have kept the puck myself." Bill was Bill Cook, oldest active player on the Rangers, leading scorer of the National League, finishing what he thinks may be his last season...
Houdini was witness to one of the exhibitions of mediumship. Having fastened Margery in a box with only her head and arms free, Houdini felt along her arm with his own hand until it had passed through the hole in the box. Then the voice of Walter, the spirit, intervened. "What did you do that for, Houdini? You--! Putting up a plant like that on a girl. There is a ruler in that cabinet...
Gleason and McCaffrey added two more hits to knock the Princeton twirler out of the box, Wilson taking his place. With the bases filled, Follansbee muffed the first pitched ball letting Nevin come home, while Gleason went to third and McCaffrey moved up to second. The next batter, Hines, reached first, but Gleason was caught between third and home. A double steal enabled McCaffrey to score the Crimson's fifth tally. On the shortstop's error Sargent was safe at first, and Hines scored from second when Neel threw wild to the first baseman. Loughlin, coming...