Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went back to Painter Chabas in Paris, who sold it to a well-rubied Russian for the equivalent of $10,000. But of all the fortunes made from reproductions of the picture by enterprising entrepreneurs, Chabas once plaintively remarked that "nobody was thoughtful enough to send me even a box of cigars...
...felt to shake hands with Queen Elizabeth at Wimbledon and what they had said to each other (The Queen: "It was a very enjoyable match, but you must have been very hot on the court." Althea: "I hope it wasn't as hot in the royal box...
Rather than "hang around for the bitter end," Sandhurst-bred Major Powell, 49, quit after 28 years in the army. He went to work for a Suez Canal contractor, had been jobless since the British invasion when he wrote a letter to Box F-1794 the Times, in answer to a classified ad for an advertising salesman. Wrote Powell: "I can ride a show jumper or fight a duel. I can swim a river, kick a cad where it hurts-or play chess with a debutante. I once shot a bandit in Sumatra. I could do anything from baby sitting...
Daydream à Deux. Box F-1794 turned out to be the Sketch, which promptly cooked up the Win-A-Man stunt, put Powell on the payroll as its "Bowler-Hat Superman." Thousands of letters poured in to the paper, from spinsters, jokers (one chap needed a chap to trim his corns), enlisted men who wanted an officer to serve them breakfast...
Time Capsule. In London, Alan West won a divorce after testifying that his wife had slipped a note into a box of chocolates he was carrying out of the house, reading, "This man is married...