Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less than a month later, Birger more than evened the score. For it was his evidence that convicted the Sheltons of the Collinsville robbery. Allied with the law for the duration of the Shelton trial, Charles Birger, sleek, suave, smartly-tailored, stepped into the witness' box, said, "Howdy, Sheltons!" spent 20 minutes swearing away 25 years of three men's lives. Beneath his well-cut coat he wore a steel-vest, bulletproof...
Patrolman Prior, coming to Murphy's aid, was jostled by the crowd, and his hat knocked off, Seeing all the signs of a riot in this act, Prior drew his gun, and holding the students at bay, backed to the signal box on the square, and turned in a call for assistance...
...popular mind, the term "socialism" so often connotes empassioned gentlemen who speak from soap-box platforms and who have no other platforms whatever. The red flag and the harangue had no place with the earliest formulators of socialistic principle. Socialists of the stamp of Russean and Babeux, for instance, saw in their rather visionary conceptions of a commonalty of mankind the most complete amelioration of the social evils that beset France in the 18th century. With the gradual disruption and decay of the French monarchy and the Church in France there had come a surprising shake-up of society...
...box office continued to force the Repertory to go to the ends of the earth for its scenes, and to the musty files of the theatre for its plots, we shall thank God that some gracious chance has thrown Louis Lean Hall into the best pot-pourri. He, with an artistry unique in that cast, achieves the most fascinating transitions in play after play, from African brigand to English sea captain, from doctor to slave without the least show of strain. Long live his daily bread...
...applications are limited to four seats, not including box seats, and those for "personal use" will be preferred...