Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forced to veto it because the four-page, 650-word jury-trial amendment was so loosely drawn that it would devastate the whole legal mechanism for dealing with cases under such laws as antitrust, atomic energy and securities exchange by the accepted injunction and contempt-of-court procedures (see box). It would even force jury trials for contempt of the United States Court of Appeals, which has no jury mechanism...
Tablet Toothbrush. A tablet-form tooth cleanser called Twigger will be marketed nationally by Dallas' Lanpar Co. drug house. An effervescent tablet that can be chewed and dissolved in the mouth, Twigger was devised by Dr. D. Gale Collins, a Santa Fe dentist. Price of a box of 90 Twiggers...
Pinfold, at the moment, is cracking up. Nothing serious, of course; it is just that a neighbor, Reggie Graves-Upton, has come into possession of a box designed (like Wilhelm Reich's "orgone box"-TIME, June 4, 1956) to measure "Life-Waves." Pinfold gets the odd notion that Graves-Upton's box is measuring him. He imagines things, and Mrs. Pinfold presently decides that her husband needs a long sea voyage to cure him of "the fashionable agonies of angst...
...institutions will be governed by a reasoned law and not by the whim or caprice of any man or group who is not thus restrained." His was a stirring and eloquent call "for men and peoples skilled in the law" to develop a law of nations (see box) where the emphasis "must shift from torts to contracts," and "where nations as well as individuals are subject to justice under...
Hollywood long ago discovered that priests and nuns were box office. Protestants were tossed a few films such as A Man Called Peter and Battle Hymn, but it was the Roman collar that looked best on Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien-not to mention Barry Fitzgerald, Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, Gregory Peck, Charles Boyer, Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Karl Maiden, and even Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra. All this adds up to vulgar exploitation of the Roman Catholic Church, says Film Critic Robert Brizzolara of The Voice of St. Jude, national magazine...