Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decline and fall of the American Republic they will point to today as one of the milestones on the road of the disintegration of our country. . . . These are not loans to States. Not one penny will be paid back. We are lifting the lid of Pandora's box and we'll never be able to close it. It is a step toward making mendicants of our people...
...seated in the chair usually occupied by me when living, in the attitude in which I was sitting when engaged in thought." Jeremy Bentham's bones were dressed up in his own garments, topped off with a wax effigy of his head. As guarded now in an old box in the Anatomical Museum of University College, London, Jeremy Bentham sits with his skull at his feet, his favorite stick, "Dapple," on his knee. Last week, at the dinner celebrating the 100th anniversary of his death, he was trotted out on show, for his will stipulated that at any commemorative...
...winner's circle. Said Owner Walls, a one-time jockey, then a policeman, locomotive engineer, actor, playwright and master of hounds: "I am glad to have lived for this . . . for once I'm the hero of a drama instead of a farce. . . ." He went to the Royal box, was congratulated by King George...
...which he covered by market purchases once for 10,000 shares which he delivered out of his Regent Corp.'s holdings. Though Witness Raskob had actually liquidated about 80,000 shares of General Motors in the four years in order to "diversify his holdings," he never "sold against the box...
...Antonio, San Francisco, the Virgin. Jesus, all of whom meant nothing to them. Why not praise their patron, San José? At his next visit Padre Martinez propped an image of San José in the pulpit, stood on the floor himself. While the sacristan circulated the money-box among the congregation, the Padre exhorted them to pray to San José. That saint did not waste time preaching to birds and fish, like San Antonio. He could do things-give the men more sheep, the boys beautiful wives, could wangle them through purgatory, into heaven. . . . At this point...