Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lank Sir John Simon, his lawyer's wig slightly askew with the vehemence of his summation, faced ten men and two women in the jury box at Old Bailey last week. Said...
Edward Birdsall of Yorktown Heights, N. Y. was a small boy in short pants in 1892. He wandered about his father's farm on Croton Lake and did the things that boys do. He picked up a small box turtle, carved his initials, E. B. 1892 on the shell and let it go. On July 15, 1931, Edward Birdsall, farmer, was mowing hay on his farm at Croton Lake when a turtle crossed the swath. He picked it up and saw the initials E. B. 1892 on its shell. His old friend had returned, no larger, no quicker...
...said to newsmen as he started wearily for Paris: "I didn't think I'd be needed while Mr. Stimson was there." Undersecretary Mills, in Washington, was sorry and worried. "If this thing goes on," he said, "they'll be bringing him home in a box...
...said the brown-jacketed steward, sweeping cash into his little tin box, "but we will take them today if they're offered...
...fourth district (New Jersey) often listens to an entire family of Rockefeller musicians. Sample game played in the second district: "We . . . formed two lines facing each other. With the outer covers of two penny matchboxes decorating the noses of the two leaders, we started on a relay race. The box was relayed from nose to nose the length of the line...