Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mail box and shower room fires have recently adorned the records of the Cambridge Fire Department, but firemen agreed that it was a now one on them yesterday afternoon in Brattle Square when they were called upon to extinguish cribs, baby carriages, bed-pots, and other articles of infant paraphernalia in a truck whose exterior was inaptly labelled "Beer and Wine...
Coach Henry Lamar has had remarkable success with his boxing teams that he has taught to "box rather than fight"; and it is a pity that the team will travel no more to battle the Coast Guard or Virginia, because there are plenty of potential champions in line. Some of the Freshmen are really good, and plenty of skill as well as just beef and brawn are being exhibited...
...crowd were George Giannini, Clark Gable, Mrs. E. L. Doheny, Gene Tunney, Adolph Bernard Spreckels, Joe Di Maggio, Rupert Hughes. Comedian Joe E. Brown gave his guests a box lunch in the grand stand. Cinemagent Zeppo Marx, whose brothers spent the day working in a picture called A Day at the Races, bet $1,000 on Chanceview. Cinemactress Simone Simon bet $2 on Grand Manitou. Paulette Goddard wore the black hat which she considers lucky. There were 13,000 cars in the 85-acre parking...
Covering the event from the press box on top of the grandstand, were the ablest reporters in the U. S. Wrote Grantland Rice, dean of U. S. sportswriters: ". . . Rosemont and Seabiscuit should lead the chase. . . ." Columnist Sidney Skolsky described the scene when the bugle blew for the parade to the post: "The . . . track was so crowded there almost wasn't room enough for the horses. . . ." At the post, it took three and a half minutes to get the field of 18 in line. Then, in a sudden hush, the line began to move and the crowd to roar. What...
...Eric" Erickson's collection of portraits included choice Rembrandts. His 1,000-acre duck-shooting box at Brookhaven, L. I. was the envy of his gunning friends. The Megantic Fish & Game Club in northwestern Maine prospered under his twelve-year presidency and his fly-casting was respected by the troutiest...