Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ardent follower of progressive Governor Ellis Arnall, Mrs. Mankin was supported by the local Political Action Committee. On election night, she was running behind until the ballot box from Atlanta's Ward 3, Precinct B, was opened. The precinct, where all but ten registered voters are Negroes, was supervised by Negro poll officials, for the first time in Atlanta's history. In the box were 956 votes for Mrs. Mankin, 35 for her opponents. Mrs. Mankin won by 770 votes...
Last week, grizzled, hard-bitten hard-rock miners came down out of Colorado's Rocky Mountains to Denver to try the latest treatment for the old complaint. At the University of Colorado's School of Medicine they bellied up to a six-foot-high box fitted with nozzles at mouth level. Putting a clamp on their noses and the nozzle in their mouths, they breathed in & out through the tubes. Newcomers started at five minutes every day; veterans stood at the box from ten up to 20 minutes...
...wild rout that followed the battle, Brady reached Washington with his duster begrimed and his straw hat limp with sweat. But in his negative box were the first of his series of great war photographs. As soon as the plates were developed, he exhibited them in his Washington gallery. Their success was instantaneous. Wrote Humphrey's Journal: "The public is indebted to Brady of Broadway for his excellent views of grim-visaged war. . . . His are the only records of the fight at Bull Run. . . . Brady has shown more pluck than many of the officers and soldiers who were...
Untopical like most revues, themeless like some, and extravagant like all that hope to attain box-office success, "Three to Make Ready" contains some highly amusing dancing by Ray Bolger, plushy but tasteful sets by Donald Oenslager, bright music by Morgan Lewis, and a few interesting but mostly pointless skits, directed by Margaret Webster...
...Three to Make Ready" appears to have a young, spirited cast and management as yet unjaded by the box-office. With the show's basic ingredients--good music, dancing, and production--the troupe, sparked by Mr. Bolger's whimsical mimicry and Jane Deerings delicate dancing, can be counted on to smooth out something that at present can be entirely enjoyable only after a few drinks...