Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Campbell, assistant plant engineer of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., returned to New York last week from the home of his ancestors on the S. S. Majestic with a portfolio of rare and valuable prints, a box full of strange balls and about 80 ancient & honorable golf clubs. There were warped cleeks, battered baffys, jiggers, brassies, spoons and nibicks, the whole making the finest collection of antique golfing impedimenta ever brought to the U. S. Soon they will occupy a special museum wing in the new cruciform James River Country Club near Newport News. After...
...Observatory. One day was solemn. The seers of the heavens trooped before a big, partially completed building to watch & hear Professor Harlow Shapley, head of the Harvard Observatory, place some Pickering photographs in a copper box with some other documents. This, he said, he was doing to enlighten astronomers five centuries from now as to how far advanced the present-day astronomer...
Thereupon he put the box in a hole in the wall of the new building, and handed a marked brick to England's Astronomer-Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson. The Astronomer-Royal patted some mortar on the brick and with it plugged the hole-in-the-wall which contained the copper box. saying: "As is the custom of godfathers. I place the care of this magnificent observatory into the hands of its most capable parents...
Ballyhoo of 1932. "As clean and wholesome as the magazine!" promises Comedian Bob Hope from an upper box labeled "Complaint Department" a moment before Ballyhoo's many-hued curtain goes up. The revue (written by Ballyhoo magazine's editor, Norman Anthony) keeps its leering promise. Able Comedian Willie Howard struggles home on a street car with the most essential fixture for his bathroom; with Brother Eugene he tries to make a papier-mâché cow "give"; on a Columbus Circle soap box he makes a Communist speech: "Rewolt! Our cup of beeterness ees feeled...
...Volpi departed last month he flung exuberantly to the Argentine internal loan fund 50,000 pesos ($12,500), half of his season fee. Pretty Lily Pons got more: $27,000 for the season. Her Lucia and Lakme spellbound the critics, brought the scalpers as much as five times the box office price. No less did the svelte Pons figure and dark Pons lashes please the Argentinians. Last week, day of her final performance, the box office queue began at 6 a. m. When the last peso was counted the receipts totaled $7,000, breaking even the Buenos Aires record...