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Word: boxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already I am obligated by able assistance so graciously given by such fine folk as Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, Fannie Hurst, Frank O'Brien - Editor of New York Sun−Joseph and Elinor Pulitzer. All correspondence will be promptly answered if addressed to George FitzPatrick, Private Box 939 GG., G. P. O., Sydney, Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...been his appeal over the footlights that he gets all the women's vote, is elected. Backstage scenes of the type resorted to here are no longer convulsive for their own sake. Nor does pleasant hokum like the sale of candy with a souvenir in each & every box, redeem the longer intervals of sluggish comedy. Henry Hull makes the actor-mayor only a conventional juvenile. The Passion Play, traditional drama of Christ's last days, has been given for more than six centuries on the hills of Freiburg, Germany.* Last week the Freiburg players appeared in Manhattan, presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Policeman and officer searched diligently. Two hundred yards from the empty sentry box they discovered a rifle, and the huge fur headpiece of the sentinel, lying like some dead beast in the bushes. Detectives from Scotland Yard joined the search, but no trace of the scarlet-coated, white-belted sentry could be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vanished Guardsman | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...coal box in the flat," said Landlady Hanner at an early stage of the debate, "is not in keeping with the propriety of such a fashionable neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strabolgi v. Hanner | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Boston, one Vincent Featherstone has sold more than one million tickets in his 39 years in the box office of the Hollis Theatre. Last week he took one of the tickets, went inside, saw The Beggar's Opera, first play he had attended, he said, in 39 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Twins | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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