Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feed the cows and cattle. . . . The hogs also had to be fed. . . . There was one other job that was wholly mine. No one ever took it away from me and there was no one else that I could wish it upon. I refer, of course, to filling the wood box in the kitchen. It sometimes seemed to me that it had no bottom...
...Criss-Cross) : "From Greenville, Ohio, I received a heavy brown pasteboard box, which I carried to the stage of the Globe Theatre, Manhattan, and opened in the presence of a notary public. It con tained several scrapbooks, with clippings, photographs, letters and a typed autobiography up to 1890 of my late friend, Annie Oakley Butler, ablest markswoman in history, who died last month (TIME, Nov. 15). There was no letter of explanation but it seemed apparent that Annie Oakley, with whom I played in a circus some 20 years ago, wished me to be her Boswell...
...clearing up a little matter of grammar: the fact that the universities furnished no satisfaction has nothing to do with the case--the mountain did come to Mohamet. Time was when the complete equipment for a railroad magnate's desk consisted of an atlas, a silver spike, and a box of coronas; now one must have at least Roget's Thesaurus and the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The influence of the cloisters is unmistakable. Time-tables may prove unsolvable enigmas, freight rates may offer material for a mathematical genius, but syntax will never suffer as long as the Burlington runs...
...Serve food with particular attention to variety, especially of fruits, vegetables, and desserts. Good milk, careful seasoning, piping hot and icy cold dishes should be features of the new regime. Students should be encouraged to drop written criticisms of the menu in a box provided for that sole purpose. Those in charge of the dining-halls might thus be informed of student opinion, and regulate the bill of fare accordingly. The majority of students could probably be accommodated at the following hours: 8-9, 12-1.30, 6-7; but a small section of each building should, be open, to accommodate...
...theatre all bear names for the patrons' convenience in making appoint ments. They are the Elizabethan Room (containing porcelain heads in hair dresses from the time of Queen Elizabeth to now), Peacock Promenade, Chinoiserie (women's smoking rooms), Club Room, Hunting Room, Jade Room, Powder Box, Venetian Room, Marie An toinette Room, Colonial Room, Empire Room and Music Room. The auditorium, simulating French Renaissance architecture, is dec orated in ivory, rose-red and turquoise blue. Some 38 years ago, the Atlantic washed onto the shores of the U. S. an entirely insignificant underfed boy of 16. In those...