Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quarter. Politicians and lobbyists are Evjue's prime targets. The Times keeps a detective's eye on all officials in the state, and regularly prints box scores of legislative votes. Evjue harried Republican Governor Julius Heil out of office in 1942 by publishing a daily record of his absenteeism ("He's In," "He's Out"). Wisconsin has even coined the word "ev-juing" to describe the whip-smarting way he lays into an errant governor, legislator or dogcatcher...
...movie box office has not yet completely lost the land-office look it had during wartime. But moviemen suspect that the boom is over. How soon a real slump will come is something that fretful Hollywood has begun to fret about...
...Boston, where Lassie was starring in Hills of Home, a collie showed up at the box office to be photographed, while a pressagent explained that the dog rated a pass to the show because he was a relative of the star...
...with Talbot. Though critics had long known of some lost Boswell manuscripts, it was not until 1926 that an inquiring scholar reported that he had seen a box of them at Ireland's Malahide Castle, home of Boswell's great-great-grandson Lord Talbot. U.S. Bibliophile A.S.W. Rosenbach immediately cabled an offer of $250,000 for the lot. Lord Talbot huffily refused ("Who is this person?" he demanded). Another U.S. collector tried a different approach: he dropped in for tea. Courtly Lieut. Colonel Ralph H. Isham, a Yale man who had served in the British Army during World...
...hundreds of letters-enough unpublished material to fill 18 thick volumes. As the years passed, the castle continued its yield: Johnson's diary turned up in the strong room, and the entire manuscript of The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was discovered in an old croquet box...