Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play possesses many of the merits which it extolls; it is simple, homely, realistic. It is a worker's drama laid in a background of steel struts, huge cranes, belching steam-engines, stinking box-cars, wood, sand, and concrete. Rough, eager workers with rugged, seamed faces, and stick-like limbs garbed in coarse cloth toil, sweat, wonder, learn, and finally succeed. The most industrious brigade is awarded a banner, the laurel wreath of the worker's state. There is no pomp or glitter, little enough of comfort, many primitive growls and grunts, but no oratory: the whole tone is rough...
...expect deep cuts in its protective rates but Agriculture will be kept well inside the wall. On War debts he is relatively open-minded, except in the case of France. Once, traveling in Europe, he was stopped at the French border and fined for trying to smuggle a box of cheap cigars. A Dry turned Wet, he expects to raise large sums from the legalization of liquor...
...went the cry "CANCEL THE BOAT RACE!"-the most stinging rebuke that undergraduate minds could conceive. Officials of the Cambridge Union, second only to the Oxford in Empire prestige, described the 275 pacifist Oxonians as "game gaffers." *Promptly President F. M. Hardy of the Oxford Union received a box containing 275 white feathers. They had been sent, London newspapers said, "from a women's college." Next day a second box brought 275 more white feathers. "Neither consignment," stiffly announced the President of the Union, "came from a women's college." Meanwhile 25-year-old Lord Stanley of Alderley...
...Monarchists pinned premature hopes on the Nazis when "Empress Hermine" (spouse of Wilhelm II) journeyed from Doorn to Berlin in a reputed effort to sound out Chancellor Hitler on restoration. In the National Theatre at Munich the Royal box was occupied during a performance of Der Vogelhändler ("The Birdseller") last week by iron-jawed former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, his beauteous wife and her two sisters. When Bavarian stage soldiers began to sing "God be With Thee, Bavarian Lamb!" the audience burst into Monarchist cheers, hacked "Their Majesties." ¶ Because the entire Catholic Press of Prussia printed...
...went well with the Dayton work until last December when the blaster, for lack of an automatic disconnecter, set the whole device afire. No patient was in the hot box at the time. Within a week the group had complete new equipment, proceeded with more treatments. Last week another disaster occurred. As Dr. Simpson in Montreal prepared to read a report, his collaborator, Dr. Kislig, died in Dayton. Autopsy showed progressive heart failure following influenza. Dr. Simpson caught a train, left the paper for another to read. Radiotherm treatments at Dayton will continue...