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Word: boxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such popularity must be preserved," he remarked, pushing aside a pile of telegrams that lay on the table. "Put 'em in that box, Fritz," he continued, to Mr. Frederick Haas, his manager, who had just arrived on the scene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "American Jazz" a Distinct International Idiom in the Opinion of Paul Whiteman--Band Will Enter the Movies | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...charming sister, invites friends whom she likes better than the correct friends of her family to a private party of her own which she arranges, with bottles of whiskey, in what used to be the nursery. Here two fantastically funny friends of hers invent flowering amusements; then the music box plays and Linda dances with Johnny Case, her sister's fiance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Royal Box. The Belmont is the name of a hotel, Belmont is the name of a racetrack, Belmont is the name of a theatre. With the others the Belmont Theatre has much in common: the one caters to transients, guests for a day, a week; the other presents events of speed. Many a speedy transient will have been under the roof of the Belmont Theatre before the season ends. Already the fourth of the season has come, will go. It presents Walker Whiteside in a comedy first written by Alexandre Dumas, rewritten and presented three decades ago by Charles Coghlan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...motored plane was a system of double planes, resembling box-kites fastened one to another in the general shape of the letter T. A very light and powerful petrol motor drove two light propellers at high speed. The pilot sat at the juncture of the T. On its first recognized flight (in France) that Santos-Dumont T-plane flew 220 metres in 21 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Brazil's Aeronaut | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...plane resembled a great, wide box kite with" struts supporting vertical and horizontal rudders far out in the rear. The engine was at one side of the flyer's seat, so that if the plane tumbled it would not fall on him. Two skids projected in front to prevent the plane somersaulting on landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 25 Years | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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