Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department last week just barely lifted the lid of a Pandora's box, gave the public a quick look at the horrors within and then slammed the lid down. The glimpse was enough to show how the Army's little-known Chemical Warfare Service, without firing a shot, had won its weird...
...especially concerning a subject which does not allow levity. Sarcasm, or the caprice of an ignorant and petulant fool. If your paper is governed by principles of decency and good writing, certainly there is no room for the sort of thing that we find in the most recent Music Box...
...policy of the SERVICE NEWS in regard to signed articles and columns is to permit the fullest possible freedom of expression to the individual authors, who rink their own pride, reputation, and indeed, in some cases, necks. No exception to this policy has been made for the Music Box...
...Seventh Veil (Sydney Box-Universal) is an English picture which sets out to resolve the romantic dilemmas of a lady concert pianist. It uses the relatively new medical technique of narcohypnosis as an excuse to use the old movie technique of the flashback. What is known in the trade as a "woman's picture," The Veil examines the frustrations of a basically good girl who is besieged by three far-from-perfect suitors. U.S. audiences may note that the psychiatric theme used in Hollywood's recent Spellbound has been more intelligently filmed by the British...
...history and are not merely watching it stream past. . . . I declare to you that I would rather see this whole island turned inside out and upside down every ten years, with whole cities pulled down and rebuilt as if they came out of a child's box of bricks, than I would see these grand folks of ours sinking into apathy again, lulled by the murmurs of fools and rogues...