Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inventress of household thingamajigs. "Her fingers were still nimble enough to tie three knots in an eyelash" when she was past 60. Dr. Tesla migrated to the U. S. in 1884 to work for Thomas Alva Edison, whom he soon quit. His naturalization papers he keeps in a safety box, his scientific medals and degrees in old trunks and cupboards...
...Washington the Mills family lives in a big house on 18th Street rented from Walter Evans Edge, the asparagus-loving U. S. Ambassador to France. Before breakfast each morning to the house comes H. C. Langmak, physical trainer, to box, skip rope, do setting up exercises with Mr. Mills before he hustles away to his office by 9:15 a. m. In slack times the Undersecretary slips out to Burning Tree Club where he plays an 85-10-90 game of golf. In Manhattan the Mills home is just off Fifth Avenue on 6gth Street. There is also a Newport...
Some time later a Congressional committee presented Hero Parke with a piece of the fringe of the flag in which John Wilkes Booth's spurs caught as he leaped from the theatre box after assassinating President Lincoln...
High point of humor was Harry Richman's scene after the intermission, selling a broom to a housewife by radio advertising technique (including quartet). But the main box office insurance, besides frequent and generous glimpses of lovely Zigs, remained the injections of nostalgia. These were administered in two ways, for contrast. Under a sidewalk perspective of the Empire State Building, industrious Mr. Richman sang while the company pranced a stagger-jazz cacophony called "Doing the New York," sure to make out-of-towners feel well away from home. And out of a hard-drinking penthouse party scene were developed...
...President Achenbach began to feel old. Railroads which had refused to enter the territory themselves began to want the B. M. & E. Last week its officials met in their small Oklahoma City office, completed a deal whereby M-K-T will get the road and equipment (three locomotives, 12 box cars, two section cars, two cabooses) for about $2,300,000. This, estimated 83-year-old President Achenbach, compares to a cost of $2,100,000, a profit of about $2,000 a mile...