Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that her husband threw her parrot out the window when the bird snitched on him for coming home late. In Portland, Me., Raymond Bracey, seeking a divorce, complained that his wife not only served him pea soup for breakfast and dinner but put pea-soup sandwiches in his lunch box...
Readers are not much help as critics, said Editor Pope, who felt that most casual comment on the press is ignorant and irrelevant. But, he said, "someone is going to pioneer in the new art-science of measuring and revealing the box score of the press, and I suspect it will be a uni versity. . . ." He hoped it would be a number of universities...
...Rated by the gross take of their films. These figures do not represent the stars' earnings or box-office power, since they make no allowances for the pull of costars, Technicolor, story...
...after, Mark Twain argued for the annexation of Hawaii to the U.S. He sent back able reports on sugar growing, the fertility of the soil, missionary activities (his California newspaper pals began to call him St. Mark), even had the foresight to see the islands as a "commanding sentry-box for an armed squadron." And his humorous lectures on the islands, when he got back home, gave him his first widespread reputation (he outdrew Actress Fanny Kemble 1,500 to 200 in Pittsburgh, packed London's largest hall six nights running...
...year's end many a cinemogul, starved for box-office cake, waited wistfully for the critical crumbs in year-end reviews. The critics were kind...