Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Withal, they wrapped him round and round to be a perfect mummy, and lifted him into a box heavy as lead but golden, wherein they also put innumerable amulets of beauty and ghostly merit, as well as two swords, jewel-studded...
...general, the college sport authorities look upon the "box-office" game as a danger to intercollegiate football. Those who have sought most ardently to rid the college game of "ringers" are now aroused to fear by the present efforts to put the game on a commercial basis. They fear that professional will replace the amateur, and that academic football will, as a result deteriorate...
...Coolidge occupied a box at a concert of the New York Symphony Orchestra in Washington, having as her guests Mrs. Morrow and Miss Betty Morrow, wife and daughter of Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co., Chairman of the President's Aircraft Inquiry Board...
...hand, strode down the aisle in swishing panoply until he confronted an enormous block of golden Poughkeepsie granite propped up in the south end of the Cathedral by a block and tackle. Trustee George W. Wickersham described how, in the pit prepared for the stone, lay a copper box, 18 inches long, lined with tin, filled with relics of the Church, lists of contributors, newspapers, American coins. Then, while the people repeated the Lord's Prayer, the Bishop traced the sign of the cross upon the rock with his trowel; Architect Cram gave a signal...
...half-hour later the team was turning somersaults and tipping over taxicabs out in front of the Tremens Theatre. Having ripped up half the pavement and broken all the glass in the lobby they were filling quietly in when the doorman (Yale '99) and the box-office individual (Princeton 01) and the manager (wherever he went) conspired to stop their progress. The charge of intoxication was, of course, ridiculous...