Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Infantryman Clegg had a box seat. The Revenge happened to be the sixth ship of Admiral Jellicoe's line of battle and the third to open fire. Five days after the battle, Ernest Clegg returned to France. Three weeks later he was severely wounded in the Battle of the Somme. In November 1918 his friend Captain Kiddle invited him out to the Revenge again to witness the surrender of the German Navy...
...Bulls & Bears. Success of Monopoly, which was last week estimated to be in its sixth million and selling faster than ever, gave Bulls & Bears a pre-publication sale of 100,000, largest on record for a new game. Parker Brothers expect it and a more morbid diversion called Jury Box to be the major new rivals to contract bridge for 1937. Trend in U. S. games demonstrated by both Bulls & Bears and Jury Box is realism, which recurs in parlor sports at 30-year intervals. Monopoly, based on real-estate tradings, and G-men, invented by onetime G-Man Melvin...
...shrewd speculator can acquire valuable privileges by buying a seat on the Stock Exchange. Its copyright title is derived from a card game called Make a Million, in which the pack contains bull and bear cards. Jury Box is an effort to combine in practical form the sadistic appeal of crime stories with the masochistic fascination of the puzzle. It is a box of six envelopes, each of which contains a description of, and all the material necessary for, the solution of a serious crime. The host acts as district attorney, passes out evidence to his guests, who form...
Mind has at last triumphed over matter, and the Maintenance Department has finally interceded to settle a mail box crisis in the basement of University Hall...
...deprecate either the acting of its stars or the Impressive Technicolor in which it is filmed. Marlene Dietrich as a rich adventuress and Charles Boyer as a renegade monk give performances that one can appreciate without an adequate story, and the picture's coloring guarantee it the box-office success it would not receive had it been produced in the customary black and white. Technicolor is both the strength and weakness of the "Garden of Allah". It is responsible for making the plot of series of sequences which attempt to prove what a wonderful thing movie coloring will someday...