Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday saw Charles Devens, as one-man ball team, aided by other members of the squad, notably Wood and his long distance home run clout, administer Columbia a fitting revenge for an early season upset, 8 to 3. But yesterday the genius of Devens was absent from the pitchers box, and the infield which usually supports him so well collapsed behind the adequate pitching of Taylor. Devens played in centre field and hit the only double of the contest...
Wall Street last week beheld an unusual sight-Mrs. Vincent Astor, slim and chic, standing on the running board of a large yellow automobile shaking a coin box, begging contributions...
...Detroit, delighted to see a sign "Big Premiere-Price 5?" outside a long-closed cinema theatre, 95 patrons bought tickets from a courteous boy in the box office, gave them to another boy, were ushered to seats by a third. The show failed to begin. "Hey, when does the show start," shouted an impatient patron. One of the boys stepped from behind the curtain. "There has been a slight delay due to a mechanical defect," he announced. "Please be patient." So patient were the patrons that not for an hour did they discover that the boys and the receipts...
Happiness, Too. Last week Happiness ("In Every Box") Candy Stores joined Loft, Inc., The Mirror and Pepsi-Cola Co. in their fight against Coca-Cola Co. Happiness sought $2,250,000 in damages, bringing the total of the actions to $11,750,000. Allegations were the same ones of libel and "malicious interference" with the Pepsi-Cola contracts (TiME...
California dust billowed behind a lumbering coach-&-four as it careened into a ring at the W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Ranch at Pomona one afternoon last week. At the reins was Captain William Banning, pioneer stage driver. Beside him on the box was grinning Will Rogers. Inside the coach, holding tight, sat California's cowboy-booted Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. and Cereal Manufacturer Will Keith Kellogg (corn flakes), owner of the ranch. Bands played, a crowd of actors, actresses, ranchers and California citizens great & small cheered as Mr. Kellogg climbed down from the coach...