Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prisoners' box was not a confidence-inspiring red but leaden grey. Four soldiers guarded the eight prisoners. Facing Death, they smoked and read magazines to pass the time. Thirteen Jupiter arc lamps blazed upon judges, prosecutor, prisoners. A dozen Soviet photographers prowled and climbed about unhindered, taking snapshots. Cinema cameras, both silent and sound-recording, purred softly. To the half-million citizens shouting "Death! Death!" outside, batteries of loudspeakers shouted every word of the trial. To illiterate millions of Soviet citizens the state radio broadcast. By order of Prosecutor Krylenko daily bulletins from the trial were despatched from Moscow...
...while at Tome School and at Annapolis where he stroked his class crew, George Bancroft became an actor. Like other actors from the East, he went into pictures to play western villains. In Driven he was billed as The Smiling Villain. Smiling villainy became his specialty. When Underworld set box-office records and a fashion for crook stories, he was made a star. Looking younger than his age (43) he earns about $5,000 per week, takes a swim every day, has a mild aptitude for humorous anecdotes which he acts out gravely as he goes along. Last spring...
...ordinary ticker-tape, turned into guncotton, was fed between two copper rolls into the cylinder and exploded electrically. But when the engine itself exploded and injured an assistant, Edison abandoned the project. In 1910 he secured a patent for a helicopter type, said to embody a number of tetrahedral (box) kites to be whirled about a vertical axis...
...affectionate account, not totally bereft of humor. "He crawls excitedly under the table for something and then, having secured it, gleefully stands upright. Bang! The table has rushed down upon him and crashed his head for him. He desires a piece of coal from the coal-box and to stoop for it he puts his hands on the fender to balance himself. Yell ! The fender is hot and has jumped at him and blistered him. . . . What a life...
Another musical show is in town but that should not cause any great rush to the box office as "The Street Singer" is the typical type of entertainment offered to the not so discriminating audiences in the middle west. To be sure the piece improves as time goes on: the second act being far superior, due possibly to the fact that one becomes accustomed to the lack of good music and absence of a good comic character, the musical comedy...