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Word: box (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returning student who wishes to case himself gently into the rut of academic life, the University's current program is warmly endorsed. The two attractions are excellently balanced, and if "The Awful Truth" has fared better at the box office, Marlene Dietrich's "Angel" still carries off many of the honors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...Court decision upheld the validity of evidence procured against a Puget Sound bootlegging gang by wiretapping Prohibition agents, the Federal Government has become one of the most efficient wiretappers in the U. S. Last week another Supreme Court decision, this time 7-to-2, gave Federal eavesdroppers a sharp box on the ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: Wire Tappers | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...edge of a precipice and a thunderbolt tumbles her over. Snow White seems dead, but the dwarfs cannot bear to part from her. They let her sleep in a glass coffin. One day the Prince, wandering far and wide, hears of the girl who lies asleep in a glass box and when he sees her, kisses her. Snow White awakes and there is gaiety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Screenwriter Claude Binyon. It is also a new comic high for Carole Lombard who-with Nothing Sacred, in which she is co-starred with Fredric March, released last month and still playing the first-run houses-is in the envied position of competing with herself at U. S. box offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...theory that music alone hath not sufficient box-office charm, the producers stuffed the picture with best-selling comedy commodities. In view of the Paris background, the film has still another distinction : the Eiffel Tower does not appear until the second reel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 20, 1937 | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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