Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cutts '28 and Willard Howard '28 are the pair from which the Harvard twirler to face the invading batters will be chosen. Cutts work in the box this spring has been erratic, although his side arm delivery has generally proved baffling to opposing batsmen. Howard was recently converted into a pitcher and in his lone performance against Williams a fortnight ago, he allowed only a brace of hits...
...that it was no longer on the market. Finally we called him up to ask what it was used for, so that we could perhaps provide a substitute. "I want to pin a tag on a cat's ear" was the answer. Whereupon we bought him a ten-cent box of clothes-pricing tags which proved satisfactory...
...domestic servant. Later, she became a mystic and dictated prophecies (in rhyme). She fully expected to be the mother of the "true Messiah." But no Messiah came, even though 100,000 people believed in Prophetess Southcott in her heyday. In 1814 she died, leaving an eleven-pound box with instructions that it should not be opened except in time of national stress and in the presence of 24 bishops. During the last century, certain Britishers have been reported as going into trances over this box. However, it was never opened, chiefly because of the difficulty of assembling 24 bishops...
Recently the box came into the possession of the Psychical Research Society, a rather playful group of scientists including Sir Oliver Lodge. Respectful, they used no crowbar or ax. Resourceful, they peeked last week into the box with the aid of an Xray. Amused, they saw only the outlines of a horse pistol, dice box, skull, scissors, bead bag, pins, coins, rings, and what is believed to be the roll of a manuscript...
...week hence, the box of Prophetess Southcott will be publicly opened by the Psychical Research Society in Albert Hall, one of the largest auditoriums in London. Whether it will be an occasion of national stress and whether 24 bishops will be present, was not announced. Sir Arthur Conan...