Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boxes were intact in Winthrop House after a 7:30 o'clock checkup last night, and the house janitor on duty declared that no robberies had been discovered. He recalled an Adams House felony several months ago, however, where the check was "lifted" without smashing the box...
...Clark lacked confidence in the spiritual resources he did possess, why did he enter the chaplaincy? He should have learned as a civilian minister that neither the Church nor the Army had any special magic box to hand him for his military use capable of doing what his resources as a disciple of Christ failed...
...City. As Larsen E. Whipsnead of the radio, or Cuthbert J. Twillie in My Little Chickadee, he was simply being himself. He was born Claude William Dukenfield, son of a poverty-stricken Philadelphia family. When he was about eleven he crowned his father with a heavy wooden box in retaliation for a whipping and ran away from home. He slept in alleys and on porches, often awoke in agony from cold. He stole milk, crept into saloons to snatch free lunch. He was always using his fists and always coughing (he later discovered that he had had tuberculosis...
...tidy or taut; its clash of viewpoints never quite boils up into drama; its culminating melodrama is clumsily handled and unexciting. But it remains an honest approach to a vital subject. And if it sounds sharp warnings, it offers no smug answers; it is evidence given in the witness box, rather than a resounding verdict handed down from the bench...
...hands after a day's work beating laundry in the icy Manzanares River in winter. He did not see "the clergy," but an old priest dozing in a wild garden with a lizard sunning on his knee, or young priests emptying the church's poor box and playing cards for the proceeds. The worn-out monarchy, for him, was a hemophilic prince grinning from a carriage...