Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gallery when the House convened was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, bareheaded, knitting a sweater. When members spotted the First Lady, they rose and clapped. Mrs. Roosevelt responded by standing, nodding, smiling pleasantly, and like Mme Defarge in the French Revolution resuming her knitting. With her in the Presidential box were her son James, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr.. Mrs. Mary Howe Baker, daughter of Roosevelt Secretary-Crony Louis McHenry Howe, and Miss Nancy Cook, Mrs. Roosevelt's partner in the Val Kill furniture factory...
...close to ruin that producers had begun to feel sure nothing more could happen to them. They had failed to anticipate something which was almost as disastrous to the entertainment business, dependent solely upon ready cash, as the earthquake might have been. The national bank holiday caused cinema box-office receipts to fall about 45%. The effect was at once felt in Hollywood. Studios, most of which pay their running expenses with money from the financial capital of the industry in Manhattan, had no way to meet their payrolls...
...orchestra, like drums in far off mountains, sounds in the gilded ballroom. Dresses black and gold and red and ochre, have been folded away in the cedar chest against the coming of a new campaign. Great grandmother's ear rings have gone back into mother's jewelry box. In one short month the sound and fury have dropped below a far horizon. And the girls have drifted off to Bermuda in new tweed suits, or to Florida in picture hats. Now this, to the Vagabond, is altogether fitting. Not the vanishing of the pomp of little circumstance, but the drifting...
...remarked that "these damn advertisements shouldn't be allowed in the mail-boxes. I get all excited, when I see a white slip in the box, but when I open it it's only some tutoring bureau again. I don't get very many letters anyway." One Eliot man said: "Reavens, I'm just swamped with invitations, I can't meet a girl at a dance but I get all sorts of proposals. I'm really embarrassed sometimes...
Seckatary Hawkins (Ralston Food). Eery stuff, opening with an ominous whistle. There is a Fair & Square Club, with a newspaper. Souvenirs are promised for Ralston box-tops. "You just save those box-tops like we've been telling you and you'll be mighty satisfied...