Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skill. But spooning has become a crude technique, with a relatively picayune payoff. The real returns (from $15 to $1,000) come in hitting the jackpot. When that happens in most Nevada gambling houses, only a few coins tumble down. A bell rings, the box lights up, and a sharp-eyed change girl arrives at the machine, sometimes with an assortment of mechanic types who check to see that there has been no ham-handed tampering. If the win looks legitimate, the change girl pays the big money...
...Done. The two Canadians-George G. Dingman Jr., 34, whose father publishes the reputable Times-Journal (circ. 10,720) of St. Thomas, Ont., and a sometime salesman named Joseph Dyson-worked out of London, Ont. To milk the contests, they set up a nonexistent newspaper, rented a post-office box for a nonexistent bank. Then they solicited two of the several U.S. syndicates that peddle prize contests to newspapers and that insist on sending solutions, as a precaution, to banks (or some other unimpeachable agency). In due time the phony newspaper began receiving the puzzles-and the phony bank began...
...story concrete mansion in Fuente Grove, Trinidad, Mystic Ganesh Ramsumair, B.A., sat in the lavatory pondering his future. When he plucked nervously at the toilet paper, a cunning mechanism tripped, and a music box tinkled out Yankee Doodle Dandy. In that moment of revelation, the book that was to secure Ganesh's fame was born. He thought of the title later: Profitable Evacuation...
...gathered most of the specimens between 1850 and 1856, when he "traveled widely in Concord." After friends berated him for the beaten appearance of his hat, which he used to carry the plants after he picked them, he said, "It was not so much my hat as my botany-box...
...author of these desperate verses, a notorious California road agent known as Black Bart, removed "that Box" at the risk of life and limb from a westbound stagecoach on the afternoon of July 25, 1878-and found inside it a mere $600 in cash and kind. Poor old Bart. He was born a century too soon. In 1959 he would have found, in nearly every parlor in the land, a box from which any man with enough strength to pull a hair trigger and enough chin to hold a hat string can apparently remove as much as a million dollars...