Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite all the preliminary rowdedow, the country was subdued on election day. Theoretically, the ballot was secret, but few voters used the booths set aside for them. To vote "Yes" (i.e., for the People's Front), the voter simply had to drop an unmarked ballot into the box. But if he wanted to vote "No," he had to make a cross on the ballot. Thus only "No" voters had any reason to walk into the booths; the names of those who did could be carefully noted. By midafternoon, on election day, eligible voters who had not appeared...
...come to stay? With the movie box office sagging, the RKO theater chain -parent of the Palace-fervently hoped so. The movies had done their share to kill off vaudeville, but now the exhumed variety show might be just what worried movie exhibitors needed. If the Palace's new "8 Acts 8" (featured on a bill with a cinematic weak sister called Canadian Pacific) could make the grade at the box office, the RKO chain stood ready to throw vaudeville into its movie houses around the U.S., and other chains might follow suit...
Comments about the music which have already been dropped into the Union suggestion box registered enthusiasm, requests for different music, and complete scorn for the whole idea...
...lecturer was in the process of summarizing the important points of the year's work, a bearish character dashed onto the New Lecture Hall platform, interrupting with a shout. "Professor Romans has said enough!" In the pretense of presenting a gift (in the form of a neatly ribboned box, which later proved empty) this individual seized control of the lectern and proceeded to read four pages of unhumerous and disgusting parody. His arrogance survived even the dismay of Professor Romans, the boos and the shouts of contempt and disapproval of some four hundred angered students...
...box score: HARVARD (10) ab r h po a e Dunn, ss 4 1 0 1 4 0 Roche, rf 5 3 3 1 1 0 Foynes, lf 5 2 2 2 0 0 Coulson, 1b 4 1 2 6 0 0 Moffie, cf 4 0 1 0 1 0 Mannino, 3b 2 1 2 1 2 0 Crosby, c 4 1 2 13 2 0 Cavanaugh, 2b 4 0 1 3 0 1 Godin, p 2 1 0 0 1 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- Totals...