Word: box
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shipbuilders' generosity rose and fell with the tide. One yard gave Cinemactress Greer Garson a $74 silver cigaret box. Another thought the wife of F.D.R.'s Chief of Staff William D. Leahy rated a $2,516.75 jeweled bracelet. Eleanor Roosevelt, for launching a light carrier, was given a tray, a photo album and warstamp corsage, altogether worth $553.50. The Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. at Chester, Pa., honored 252 women most handsomely; $750 was the least it ever spent on any one of them...
After the days of the proud, heavily-gilded, soft-cushion Athenaeum, the Howard sunk to playing cheap variety shows in 1868. Ever since the name Old Howard has been used. For years the blue-lighted anatomical soloes have brought the crowds past the box office...
...other challenge was published in Good Sense, organ of Guglielmo Giannini's L'Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party. It appeared (unsigned) in a box usually devoted to Signor Giannini's comments. Said Good Sense: "We would like to invite people like Vishinsky to duel in the Neapolitan way, with nothing else in hand than our most noble knife, cold iron helped only by a sure forearm and stout heart and not by whole continents of seaports, mines and factories...
...went all the usual cartoons, quips, verse, chichi shopping notes and critical departments. The entire issue, except for entertainment guides up front, was given over to a 30,000-word doomsday documentary on Hiroshima, by John (A Bell for Adano) Hersey. An editorial box explained that "everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications of [the atom bomb...
Last week Lafayette's miners did something that met with their longtime doctor's deep disapproval. They trooped into Bermont's hardware & grocery, and Alderson's clothing store and dropped dollar bills and 50? pieces into a box to give him a trip around the world and to sign a citation: "To a grand old man, with the best wishes of a grateful community...