Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reward for political labors: $10,000 a year, use of a limousine, the pleasure of seeing her signature* on all U.S. folding money. ¶Received a new bow tie from a caller, Michigan's new Democratic governor, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who had been given a whole box of them. The onetime haberdasher whipped off his four-in-hand, skillfully knotted the bow tie without looking in a mirror...
Fiery Crucible. Then Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker strode toward the jury box-and the atmosphere of the trial suddenly changed. At 64, after 40 years as a pleader and advocate, frowning, crop-haired Lloyd Stryker was one of the most spectacular trial lawyers in the U.S. His voice ranged from a soothing whisper to a thundering roar as he began turning out flamboyant courtroom oratory...
...saboteurs had been hired for 185 pesos ($92.50) by a pair of illicit lovers who were anxious to get rid of the spouse of one who was a passenger on the plane. Largo had taken a box of fish to the airline office, where it was weighed in and tagged. He insisted on taking the box to the airfield. Between the office and the airfield he was met by Salazar, who transferred the tags to a similar box containing dynamite and a time fuse crudely made from an old timing device used in permanent-wave machines. The fuse, originally...
...Barter, busy last week planning a summer season with the largest Equity company outside Manhattan, is still run by Robert Porterfield. Porterfield founded the group in 1932 with 21 down & out actors, $1 in cash and a policy of barter at the box office. The first season's receipts were 10% cash and 90% pigs, game and produce; it wound up with a profit of $4.30 and two barrels of jelly...
...first producer discovered it was bad business to hurt people's feelings, movie-making has been an industry in sneakers, carefully and profitably tip-toeing around any problem liable to jar the customer's ego. During these 40-odd years, Hollywood has kept its eye fixed steadily on the Box Office as the one valid index of public morality and has consequently built up a picture of American life which is as false as it is glossy and as harmful as it is complacent. Now, at last, this bright veneer shows signs of wearing thin. Movies are beginning to talk...