Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trapped in Hollywood by New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson, Producer Harry Kurnitz detailed "standard equipment" needed by a screenwriter: "A Capehart, a Utrillo, a French poodle, a sun lamp, an exwife, a lawyer (for the ex-wife), an antique Chippendale gag file, some cashmere underdrawers, an empty box at the Hollywood Bowl (it doesn't count if anybody ever sits in it), one friend (preferably getting the same salary he gets)." "A typewriter?" suggested Wilson. Kurnitz shuddered, explained that a writer always dictates...
...Department building." A minute or so later the car stopped near the building at the corner of the Street of the Prophets. As Middleton, carrying his old-style, drum-fed Tommy gun, climbed out, an excited clerk told him that at 2:10, several men carrying a large tin box had entered the building. They said it was a time bomb and would explode in 20 minutes; then they left...
Middleton, Watts, and Hayes found the box in the chief clerk's office. Middleton returned to the car to report: "There's a tin box covered with filing cases. Have we to evacuate the surrounding buildings?" Replied the control operator: "Evacuate. Do you want bomb disposal?" Answered Middleton...
Watts and Hayes hooked ropes onto the box, started to haul it out. The rope slipped and Hayes went in to refasten it. Middleton raised his whistle to warn people in nearby buildings. The bomb went off. What was left of Hayes and Watts was buried under the collapsed stone building. Middleton's body was blown through a barbed wire barrier and across the Street of the Prophets. His police whistle was still in his mouth...
...dashed off. The hussars scattered. Dubliners considered this incident alone made the show a success. When Eire's No. 1 Army band (conducted by a German) played God Save the King!, Eamon de Valera smiled sourly as he stood at attention in what used to be the royal box. Whether he liked it or not the British team won the big event, the international military jumping contest...