Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death & the Ballot Box. Even among the victors, men's fortunes rose & ebbed rapidly in the quick shift of the tides...
Unmoved by this evidence, General Meyer strode into the witness box, smoothed his grey-green tunic, gesticulated freely through a voluble denial. He claimed that he had not known about the shooting of the Canadians for three days, had been "incensed...
...concert promoter in Chicago put it this way: "When I found out it was Hindemith's 50th birthday I said, 'Let's bring the guy here and cut up the cake out here.' I knew it wouldn't mean any cake at the box office but for heaven's sake he's one of the world's foremost musicians, and unless someone takes an interest in what he's doing the public will never know his work. What are we going to do, wait until his 150th anniversary...
Spike also invented an "anvilphone," a "crashophone" (to break glass), a "poon-tangophone" (a cigar box and a lathe) and a "latrinophone" (a toilet seat strung with catgut, which went over big on a European U.S.O. tour). To record his Hotchi Cornia, Spike rented a goat that "naa-a-a-ed" when he twisted its tail. In Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Jeep, the Slickers ripped apart an old auto. When these musical effects proved inadequate to Spike's demands, the band members crunched English walnuts in their teeth, ripped mustard plasters off each other's chests...
...charged Lustig and aides with keeping two sets of books to defraud the U.S., other devious ways of hiding profits. One was to siphon $2,000,000 from restaurant tills to a safe-deposit box of Lustig's. Another way: taking the tips of hat-check girls...