Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reptile together, he found many of the fragments missing. He recognized the fossil as the remains of an ancestor of the ancient dinosaur. This year he went to Arizona again, sifted 15 tons of dirt through fly screens. Fortnight ago he returned to Manhattan with a cigar box half-full of bits to complete his paleontologic jigsaw puzzle. The small reptile which crawled about the earth millions of years ago was not adequately equipped to cope with its environment, became extinct long before the great dinosaur appeared...
...announced that henceforth Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp. will handle ticket orders through 125 of its offices in New York City. Postal will charge a 50? handling fee, will deliver reservation slips to customers' homes. 'About one-quarter of the tickets for each performance will be sold at box offices, may be taken by brokers. It has been possible in the past to telegraph for tickets, but unique in the present arrangement is the fact that Postal can report instantaneously on what seats are available...
Very neat . . . . very pretty . . . . Shepley, Bullfinch, Abbott, Lowell, Abbott. Bullfinch and Shepley. . . .I hear the head tutor at. Dunster has an ice box. . . .the infant of Spain is that way . . . .whoops, dearie the frigid heir. . . . well, just a small bowful if Gale has it . . . .I tell you I'm off it. . . .practically . . . .where's the house named for the second president?. . . .Ohoooo. . . .I see . . . .hey, when, when, I tell you I'm off it....where the jesuchristo are my dress studs?. . . .where the ditto are my pumps?....has the head tutor also got pumps and studs for his tutees?....lousy...
Miriam Hopkins came from Savannah, Ga. but only rarely does her cracker accent slip out onstage. Her original intention was to become a dancer, but she broke her ankle after appearing in the first Music Box Revue. His Majesty's Car is her twelfth theatrical engagement, including one year with the Theatre Guild. She has no hobbies, one wirehaired fox terrier, one husband-Playwright Austin Parker (Week End), Cornellian, Wartime ambulance driver, flyer in the Lafayette Escadrille. She looks girlish onstage, thirtyish off (exact age secret...
Changes in the diamond horseshoe were few. It was whispered that old Mrs. Vanderbilt had done the incredible: rented her box for occasional performances. Absent was John North Willys, having transcended motor car making in Toledo to be U. S. ambassador to Poland while Mrs. Willys buys expensive art in Paris and their plump daughter travels about with her Argentine husband. Absent also was Edward Stephen Harkness, in Europe for the winter. But no one was so sincerely missed as Tom Bull, the courtly, white-haired gentleman who for 42 years took tickets at the front door, last summer died...