Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generous Schoolboy Stalin. Berlin rumors last week that famed Professor Hermann Zondek, specialist in internal diseases, had left for Moscow "ostensibly to lecture but actually to treat Herr Stalin" vexed the Dictator. Pulling on his heavy peasant boots he clumped off to the State Opera, sat in a front box wearing an old khaki blouse, appeared to enjoy Othello...
...denuded of the skin and other agencies which help regulate body temperature. A cool breeze chills him. Hence his oven, a hood of sheet steel over his bed. Four big electric bulbs keep him comfortable at 103° F. His head, shoulders and arms are outside his hot box. Thus he can read, play cards, shake hands with visitors. His doctors hope to graft skin on him some day. Last week he cheered himself & his family thus: "They told me a guy is a dead soldier if more than one-third of his body is burned. Well, I want...
...coal company, all go and take their friends to Sportsman's Park every afternoon they can. Edward Magnus, a vice president of Diesel Engine Co., watches every game and takes his family twice a week. Paul Bowling, an official in Star Bucket & Pump Co., keeps a five-seat box for the members of his family and has not missed a game for five years. They, even more than Gabby Street, a man of 49, with a homely, angular face, who sits quietly in the dugout, not waving his score card like Connie Mack nor jumping up to argue with...
...would be paid by the manufacturer or seller (of imported shells) on shells for 410-gauge guns and larger. Each box of shells would bear a stamp. One cent would be added to the retail cost of each shell. Proponents of the McCormack bill estimated that at least $7,000,000 would be raised annually. Of this sum, 5% would be used for Federal research, administration and law enforcement. The remainder would be apportioned as follows: to the States 55% for increase and protection of all game and for refunds to trapshooters (apportionment among the States to be based...
...city post office, Kvisthus, one of the clerks left on duty, is killed. Clerk Lydersen. in a panic, throws himself on one of the bandits, is knocked out. Clerk Berger, who has had time to think, when faced with two revolvers thinks some more, hands over his cash box finally. The bandits escape, and Clerk Berger's troubles begin. The police commissioner, the newspaper, everybody accuse him of cowardice. Berger knows that he was no coward, that he had done the only sensible thing, but even his wife grows cold to him. Meanwhile Lydersen, who had shown fight only...