Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brief nod of farewell to his camp guests and President Hoover, without dinner, started down the mountain toward the capital 112 mi. away. Thirty miles along the road a car from his camp careened up beside the President's motor. Its driver handed Mr. Hoover a box of sandwiches prepared after his departure. Without stopping the President munched bread & chicken & cheese while his car whizzed through heavy holiday traffic, got him back to the White House in the record time...
...some one dies, you call in a Chinaman, put the deceased in a box, or sack if you haven't a box, and the Chinaman packs the remains neatly on the chair and trots off to the cemetery. I saw several funerals like that...
Most movie critics are women. Best movie critic of the year-that is, the one who made the most successful forecasts about box office accomplishments of first run films-was not from New York City, but from Chicago. She was "Doris Arden" of the Chicago Times (a tabloid), who went to 262 movies, guessed right 183 times, wrong 73 times, made the winning percentage of 69.8%. Last year Miss Arden happened to be two women: Eleanor Keen and Muriel Vernon whom she succeeded in October. Miss Keen has a Ph.D. from Columbia, never saw more than three films a year...
...attentions become painfully ungallant, a fastidious young man with an English accent (Leslie Howard) goes to his gambling rooms and shoots him, then pleads guilty to murder. Stephen Ashe reappears in time to conclude his brilliant defense of the murderer by falling dead in front of the jury box. Best shot: a cupbearer keeping Stephen Ashe drunk so he can win his last case...
...silver plates should be melted for the state treasury, and with a considerable number of his fellow-craftsmen, came to England, where he was soon after named Royal Goldsmith. A large "lion" tankard, bearing the arms of the City of London, is another conspicuous piece, while a silver seal-box, containing the wax seal of the first ruling member of the House of Hanover is of distinct historical value. The rest of the collection consists of delicately worked taper-sticks, a "humpty-dumpty" pitcher, a pair of baptismal shells, and other items of artistic interest...