Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reader Stockman is right. Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, The Oblong Box, Thou Art the Man, first appeared in Godey's Lady's Book...
Reinhold Faust was a peaceful old man last week, but for over 21 years he had had no peace. When he was taken to Joliet Penitentiary to serve 14 months for threatening Banker Forgan, he was in a predicament. In Box No. 198 in the vaults of Chicago's National Safety Deposit Co. he had four black powder gaspipe bombs. He solved his problem momentarily by throwing away the safe deposit...
Someone ought to send a box of puppy biscuits to a couple of Architectural students who pulled the Crime-of-the-week a few days ago. They went out the evening before to drown out thoughts of gals and gables, and coming back to their boarding house in the smaller hours of the morning, they decided they wanted something to eat. In the house ice-box they found a large bunk of juicy hamburg steak. Here was a real find! They cooked it gleefully and ate it with relish. It was delicious...
Steinberg, an expert conductor in his own right, conducts without a score, like Toscanini. Unlike Toscanini, he waggles his head both for cues and for umph. And when pinches come, he winds up like Dizzy Dean and lets them have it. Steinberg's box score: one hit, one error (playing Anton Bruckner's interminable Fourth Symphony...
...Carl Crow (400 Million Customers), ex-Far East adman, is no diplomatic historian. The career of Townsend Harris interests him for its suggestion of Gilbert & Sullivan, its overtones of the Pandora Box story...