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Word: boxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief, "The Ghost Train" is a sad, sad, business, a mystery show in which every customary spooky manifestation is trotted on, from the waving of mysterious crimson lamps outside the windows to the usual unexplained noises made by a stagehand hitting a cracker box with a bungstarter in the hope of representing, we suppose, a spectral game of craps...

Author: By L. H. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/14/1927 | See Source »

...countries, but the spittoon is the worst. I don't see the use of it, either. If it be in deference to the opinion of society, I for one, would rather not be obliged to imagine constantly what may be inside that circular orifice. I prefer the box of sand, which is a candid piece of furniture, and invites contemplation. But why one should be troubled with either, when everybody uses the carpet, is not satisfactorily proved to me, by any means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: XMAS BIBLIOPHILIA IS FEATURED AT WIDENER | 12/13/1927 | See Source »

...NATIONAL AFFAIRS) under the sub-caption "Fifty Cents" you say "Governor Smith accepted the customary witness fee?50 cents?which he dropped into a Roman Catholic poor-box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...rear its inverted bulk on the Presidential platter. Mr. & Mrs. Frank Waterman Stearns of Boston were the only White House guests, so there was plenty for all.* Dinner was served in the evening after a day, more springlike than autumnal, during which President & Mrs. Coolidge sat in a box at Keith's Theatre and heard a sermon on "The Real Thanksgiving" by Rev. Jason Noble Pierce, whose First Congregational Church is being repaired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...fruit; a musical attachment designed to play certain tunes. This machine-the "Baker Bar-ette"-is usually made with a red-lacquer finish. Some are equipped with the heads & tails of animals (cock, horse, dog) sticking out at either end, to support the leaves which, when folded, cover the box, and, when unfolded, serve as a depository for used glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Progress: In the Home | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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