Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...described just such an automobile, in the garage of one James ("Jumbo") Crowley, gigantic onetime monarch of the Canton underworld. There were five cars in this Crowley's garage, but of the five the reporters noted specially the vehicle whispered of by timorous Cantonese as "Jumbo's Box Car." It would readily hold nine men, and considerable tools or luggage be- sides. It had extra high gears. It was battered, dented and per- forated with the marks of a hundred unguessable expeditions. Ac- tually quite innocent, it seemed to symbolize the spirit of what the Ohio underworld casually...
...admiration of his friends, with a powdered countenance, among banked flowers. Seven little pickaninnies, graded like a flight of steps, from Nathan Ellison, a toddler of 18 months, to the big seven-year-old girl from next door, stood in a line on the pavement to watch the black box carried out of the house, and stared round-eyed until the last carriage had turned the corner. Then, the next-to-largest black boy gave a tremendous leap from the curb into the gutter...
Meantime, Illinois had common political crockery to contemplate. At all times, of course, they have their governor, Len Small. Last fortnight they also had a special grand jury sitting to expose wholesale ballot-stealing, box-stuffing, gun play, voting the names of dead men, kidnaping, false returns and intimidation by hirelings of the Republican machine in grimy precincts of tough Chicago. This jury found fraud enough to indict 44 judges, clerks and election officials...
...Keys of the City. There might have been all these delights and many more if, one hot day last February on the Riviera, she had drunk a glass of brandy when Mlle. Lenglen drank one, and if an attack of appendicitis had not forced her to occupy the Royal Box instead of Court No. 1 at the recent festivities at Wimbledon. For the exclamation of the Panama really punctuated a cycle...
Pointing to Pilsudski's then empty seat in the Cabinet Box, Daszynski concluded passionately: "It is as Marguerite said to Faust, 'I am not sure...