Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away! He got away!" the detective'pretends to gloat, then screams as he throws back the lid of the coffin, "AND HERE IS MARIA HAHN!"-or Ida Reuter, or whoever he had been talking about. As the coffin flew open a powerful jack-in-the-box mechanism would cause the blood-stained body of the girl-victim to sit bolt upright-or such was the effect of a life-size wax dummy doing duty for the corpse...
...years the same swart, devout Italian has delivered at the Vatican every morning the same sealed box, calling for it later...
...morning last week he was intercepted by Italian police, commanded to open the box...
Ensued a wrangle of three hours duration which ended only when the owner of the bakery patronized by His Holiness rushed down to the jail where his deliveryman was detained, unlocked and unsealed the box, exclaiming: "You see it is only bread...
...From a box-office point of view, it would probably have been better to have matched the Boston sailor boy with the latest freak of the boxing world. Primo Carnera, Italian colossus. If the latter taken in hand in a good publicity campaign, set up against a whole row of pushovers, all carefully instructed to lie down quietly when the proper time duly arrived, and then sent down to Miami, there would probably be enough gullible sporting patrons to fill several stadiums. They would go to such a match as much to see the giant Italian in action (or inaction...