Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Readers of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Beheld this box over the Eagle's frontpage story of Ohio's prison holocaust early last week. The Eagle's account was by the Associated Press. The most gruesome detail (in a description of the deaths of over 300 men by fire) which the Eagle permitted itself to print was this: "Fire and smoke both claimed the lives of the convicts who perished...
...balcony of Juliet is a witness-box on which most good actresses have at one time stood for final appraisal. In her trial, Miss LeGallienne ran a conscientious gamut of flippancy, catlike nervousness, passion, despair. Donald Cameron's Romeo was comely but lethargic...
...Bridgetown, N. J., Walter Peterson, II, was brought to police headquarters, charged with pilfering gas meters. Asked what was bulging in his pocket, he answered: "Nothing that would interest." A suspicious sergeant then wrested a tin box from him, said: "Yes, it is, and you've been smoking too." He opened the box, spryly jumped away when 25 watersnakes slithered out, demanded that Walter gather up the serpents and leave...
Then follows the courtroom scene in which "Sandy" Tully (Jack Hartley), good friend of the deceased, is being tried for Stromberg's murder on very thin evidence indeed. Just as a witness is about to tell all he knows, a fusillade rings out from an upper box of the theatre, thus somehow terminating the legal proceedings. Last act is a flashback to Room No. 349, a scene in which Mr. Stromberg is portrayed as being wise, powerful, philanthropic, tender. His short temper, his desire to "quit the racket" and marry Babette are given as reasons for the quarrel...
...box score: SYRACUSE ab r h po a e Hayman, 2b. 5 1 2 4 1 0 Beagle, 1b. 4 0 0 6 0 1 Kelley, r.f. 5 0 2 3 0 0 Horowitz, c. 4 1 0 5 3 0 Topol, 3b. 5 1 2 3 1 0 Stevens, c.f. 4 3 3 1 0 0 Stoneberg, l.f. 4 0 2 1 1 0 Walkov, s.s. 3 1 2 3 0 1 Faisley, p. 4 0 1 1 4 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- Totals...