Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposed 1) to reduce his State's $20,000,000 deficit, and 2) redeem his campaign pledge to provide 830 monthly pensions for Texas' needy old folks. Stony-faced sat the legislators as he began reading his message, which he had typed out sitting on an apple box in his dismantled house while the O'Daniel family moved into the Governor's mansion...
...player of the opposite sex, moving up to goal marked The Altar. Cards rather than dice determine moves. If a pair draw cards marked "Edward" and "Wallis," they move ahead fast; if they draw "Canterbury," they are "sent into exile." As a promotion stunt Miss Davis recently sent a box of Love to the Archbishop of Canterbury. This week, according to a columnist in London's Daily Express, she got his answering letter. "It was a model of frigidity...
...Best box-office attraction in the Near East is tall, sleepy-eyed, sickly Mohammed Abdul-Wahab, Egypt's premier crooner and actor. Once an unlettered tailor's assistant in Cairo, Crooner Abdul-Wahab has since amassed a fortune by composing tunes which were a hybrid of Oriental and Western music. He put the songs in screen romances and, with himself in the leading role, soon became the matinee idol of Cairo, Bagdad, Damascus, Jerusalem and outposts...
Most important business event of last week was the opening of Congress and the jack-in-the-box stockmarket which it produced. Up on Franklin Roosevelt's mild opening message, stocks flopped on the next day's offering of his 1939 budget figures, with their near-record deficit...
Among the book gifts 500 volumes Herbert Weir Smith, former professor at were given from the library of the late Harvard, by his wife in his memory. A box of Daniel Webster's letters and a library of 1,800 volumes was received from the estate of Mrs. Ella Haven Ross, of Boston...