Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slap at insurgency brought a murmur of approval. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who had been sitting in a box with Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, stiffened when her father's name was mentioned for the first & only time during the convention. The Utah delegation applauded when a conference on bimetallism was promised. The oil states held a little parade when high oil tariffs were recommended. The house rang righteously with indignation when Chairman Garfield deplored the burgeoning kidnapping racket. Then the words "the 18th Amendment" were pronounced and the atmosphere electrified...
Autograph collectors and newspaper men flocked around the box of Mrs. Edward Everett ("Dolly" Curtis) Gann. She had suddenly become the heroine of the convention through her brother's victory...
...hats rolled on the ground and were trampled at Ascot one day last week. Women, caught up with men in a pushing, yelling mob, had their gowns torn, their hats mashed down over their eyes, their shoes scuffed and muddied. In the royal box the Queen and the Prince of Wales stood up and waved excitedly as the crowd surged about the winning horse. The excitement was not simply because a colt named Limelight had just won the Jersey Stakes, but because Limelight was being led in from the track by its proud owner-King George...
...Yale, Harvard (where he studied law) and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Now, at 33, Eddie Eagan feels that he has known and fought enough people to write his autobiography.- Eddie Eagan was born in Denver in 1898. A cowboy named Abe Tobin taught him how to box when he was 14. In high school Eddie Eagan was interested in history. He observed that most U. S. heroes started out as lawyers, determined to do likewise. Admiring the deeds of Frank Merriwell, hero of boys' books by Author Gilbert Patten, he decided to emulate Hero Merriwell also...
...tiger. The tiger gets the python by the throat. The python coils around the tiger's middle. The tiger shakes himself loose and goes to get a drink of water. Finally Frank Buck captures both, the python by hauling him into a cage, the tiger by building a box-trap out of logs. Alert cinemaddicts will guess that actually the tiger and the python were both captured before their fight, recaptured later for the camera...