Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inheritance of office. Mr. Mills affectionately called his superior "the Old Man." Last year while Mr. Mellon was hopping about Europe, lining up foreign approval for the Hoover Moratorium, Ogden Mills anxiously re marked: "If this thing goes on they'll be bringing the Old Man home in a box...
...months ago Samuel Seabury, inquisitor of the legislative committee probing Tammany corruption, sent the Governor a list of charges against Sheriff Farley, demanded his ousting. Included was the $360,660 deposited by the sheriff in six years, which he feebly explained as coming out of a fabulous "tin box." His motley assortment of incompetent subordinates were also enumerated, including "BigHearted" Joe Flaherty, who gave a saloon to his brother because he was "sick and hard up," and his secretary, one McNulty, who denned his duties as "nothing in particular...
...have only two games? Why not one game? Why practice at all? Why not return to the old system of calling for volunteers on the day of the game? This marvelous idea might be carried into other branches of sport. I here that certain of the boxers are practising boxing most of the year, and this certainly ought to be stopped. Why not insist that the boxers only box for a certain number of days before each contest and insist that they be further handicapped by having one hand tied behind them during each fight? Our swimmers! Horrors! I hear...
...medal from the 1892 Paris Exposition. He may not be the foremost painter in the U. S., but he is certainly the foremost painter of East Hampton, L. I., where he has a fine summer house and a solarium in which he last year offered to wrestle or box with disrespectful commentators. His wealth, position and appearance well qualified Painter Hassam to be the first subject of a series of short one or two reel cinemas, made and released by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, to preserve for history the technique, idiosyncrasies and recreational habits of leading...
...stilted phrases of her lawyers: "My gratitude does not in any way alter my conviction that she [Madame Zenatello] has been an untrustworthy and unfaithful agent." Husband August Mesritz gave details: "Not only did Maria Gay treat my wife as a puppet to be let out of a box or put in again at her behest but she seemed to live in deadly fear that my wife would become on intimate terms with the Metropolitan management or with other opera stars . . . constantly warned her that the people with whom she came in contact were scheming and dishonest and that...