Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most heroic of modern therapeutic measures is artificial fever treatment. If a patient with gonorrhea, St. Vitus' dance or atrophic arthritis is willing to lie snugly in a hot box or expose himself to short-wave radiation for periods varying from two to ten hours, sometimes several times a week, while his temperature is pushed up seven or eight degrees, he stands a good chance of recovery. Whether the intense heat kills the germs, or stimulates the body to produce germicidal substances doctors do not know. Only ill effect of intense heat was delirium, now prevented by copious draughts...
Formerly the gloomy, box-shaped, 283-year-old Royal Palace in Amsterdam was without electric lights, central heating and had but two bathtubs, both without running water. Here, as required by the Constitution. Her Majesty, Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands. Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg, has grudgingly spent two weeks each year. Recently, however, the Palace has been completely renovated, modernized. Comfortable inside last week were Her Majesty, Crown Princess Juliana & husband, Prince Bernhard, & seven-month-old daughter, Princess Beatrix Wilhelmina...
...Ambassador in snubbing Orator Cardenas by staying away from his speech. Mr. Daniels refused this offer, genially let it be known that, since he understands hardly a word of Spanish, he wouldn't know what President Cardenas was saying anyhow, and turned up beaming in the diplomatic box...
...Hollywood, eyes cocked on horizontal thunderheads, unfurled a million-dollar umbrella. Theatre attendance had been falling off; reports had come from Manhattan that Marie Antoinette, which cost MGM $2,500,000, was actually being hissed; exhibitors had called some of the studios' most valuable properties "poison at the box office"; in Washington the ground was being leveled for Thurman Arnold's anti-trust suit against the major Hollywood studios. Hollywood's answer to all this was characteristic...
...puritan, now in her early 40s, who combines the social talents of a worldly hostess with the shrewdness of a corporation executive. Yaddo is something like a swanky monastery. Most guests sleep in The Mansion. Working quarters are private studios hidden in nearby groves. Breakfast is at 8:15. Box lunches are delivered to the studios. Until four, no visiting is permitted, and then only with special permission. At dinner, in The Mansion's dining room, six tables accommodate the guests, who are shifted frequently to freshen conversation, prevent the formation of cliques. The food is famed. Coffee...