Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly all Geneva was galvanized by news that Washington had a message for the world. Flustered Mr. Henderson called the adjourned Conference back into being. Spectators swarmed buzzing into the galleries. In the press box newshawks hunched forward, fastened their eyes upon the rostrum. When U. S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh S. Gibson cleared his throat and ruffled his papers, they scribbled that he "looked nervous," mentioned "his snow-white hair, though he is only...
...onetime Board Chairman L. E. W. Pioda against Golden State Milk Products Co. Judge Walter Perry Johnston announced he would grant a recess while Juror Lomax traveled 50 mi. to Willow Glen on an important mission. Several hours later Juror Lomax returned, climbed wearily into the jury box, told interested colleagues that hereafter Willow Glen's schoolchildren could look at an innocuous poster of a youth and maiden in scanty one-piece bathing suits...
...each is to some inarticulate worshipper a symbol of prayer, sacrifice, joy or sorrow. Compounded not of tears or smiles but of beeswax, tallow, paraffin, a candle is a concrete thing. It costs money. Traditional practice in Europe (and lately in some U. S. dioceses) is to set a box of candles by every shrine, let the faithful help themselves and leave a small offering in return. Last week this practice was banned in the diocese of Rome by its vicar general, Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani. After July 1 there is to be no crass candle-traffic within the churches...
Easiest pair of journalists to pick out in the great press box were patch-eyed Floyd Gibbons and grinning Will Rogers, wishing they were "back in China where something really happens." It was evident from his second Convention colyum that Reporter Gibbons, who also spoke over NBC, found nothing important happening. Wrote he: "Hello everybody! Chicago looks like it might be going to a picnic. And Chicago ought to be picnic enough for anybody. Why, you can take a taxi and in a few minutes you're out of the heat and crowds of the Loop. Out passing green trees...
...knees. With him was Author John Dos Passes, stern commentator on the American Scene, ingenuously delighted with his first National Convention which he, too, was to report for the New Republic at 2¢ a word. Publisher Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum looked on austerely from a private box. Scripps-Howard Colyumist Heywood Broun settled his flaccid paunch behind a narrow desk, wrote many a witty crack...