Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News-stand-buyer John Box casts unwarranted suspicion upon the exploit of honest Albert Snook. Let Mr. Box turn to p. 14 of TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, and read how Albert Snook won not "an antique" but "The Chess Game," a painting by John Singer Sargent, at a lottery for the benefit of lay patrons of the Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, in Manhattan. Art-patron-publisher "Lucky" Snook was first noted by TIME when he attended an Associated Press convention at Manhattan and emitted there on the appearance of President Coolidge "a wild and enthusiastic yell" which was heard...
...House last week of "retiring with the beautiful airs of a parcel of Vestal Virgins" during the strike, and letting the country go to smash. Choleric, Mr. Macdonald moved a motion of censure which was defeated 339 to 131. Nettled, he shouted: "We want to test by the ballot box whether the nation would like to carry our motion. Parliament should be dissolved...
Citizens of La Paz, Bolivia, sought the polls last week for a municipal election. As each approached the ballot box his right hand was seized by a policeman who tattooed the palm with a special stamp...
...sincere commendation. She did qualify this by suggesting that neither had a very direct connection with the practical, working stage, the stage known to the layman by the term "Broad-way". Like all other arts the theatre requires a certain amount of common sense, which if vulgar makes for box office receipts. "Shakespere", said the Barrie heroine, "was after all rather practical. He played for the gate, you know...
...whose heart he had won with free cinema tickets and whom he had taken to live with him in a $325-per-month Fifth Avenue apartment in his sudden, ill-got prosperity. She had given him away by bragging to an old friend of Mr. Roedel's, the box office man of another theatre, about the new ice-making machine in her $325 apartment...