Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot there is so little that the play might readily have been run as a musical comedy, with infinite gain in speed and box-office receipts. Lie follows lie in the most amazing succession, so that even the most-cynical of males would be sated, and turn trustingly to his companion. "No woman could lie like that." Yet, despite the never ending procession of lies the play palls during the second act, palls indeed until The-Shot-Outside. No audience can resist The-Shot-Outside...
...Onetime Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan (TIME, Oct. 18). His famed box, weighing half a ton, supposedly containing devastating evidence of political corruption in Indiana, was secretly opened before a Grand Jury last week...
...Sesquicentennial the royal party attended a ballet performance by the troupe of the once tolerably notable Mile. Loie Fuller. The box was so located that Her Majesty could not see the stage. The Sesquicentennial Management announced ruefully that it had not been able to sell, the boxes at $55 each, as had been expected...
...brown and other jungle shades, to deceive lions and tigers. There is also a dazzle light to blind them. The car, which cost about $20,000, is of 50-horsepower, with special buffers, front and rear, to protect it from charges by wild animals. I have added an ice box, for drinks...
...Long Beach, Calif., the wife of Trombonist Charles E. Stacy listened at her radio box while far away he broadcast his best trombone solo, "The Sweetest Story Ever Told." The notes were like a lover's last lingering, farewell caress. That is what they were, for he died on the way home, of heart failure...