Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Christian X made President Relander welcome, ordered a gala night in his honor at the Royal Opera. As the audience assembled Dr. Relander was to be seen in the royal box, between His Majesty and Queen Alexandrine...
...spite of the evidence presented to the contrary in Mencken's Green Book of Aphorisms, one can rationally suppose that the genus homo Americanus, who is so used to gathering meaning from ordinary tables, box scores and bond quotation lists will prove equal to the task of supporting an annual change of time. At any rate the people have received a new right of untold possibilities, for now they can set their clocks when and where they choose with no fear of chiding from a law-stricken conscience...
Meanwhile a special train hummed northward through the night from Rome. It carried Premier Mussolini, a box of orchids, and many an aid and minion. Soon the Italian naval yacht Giuliana steamed from Leghorn with Il Duce aboard toward the Dolphin...
...series of addresses, called up the newspapers, searched hospitals, enlisted radio. His one clue was a name, "Penn." After three days, from London came a telegram signed by a Mr. Penn, allaying his fears, telling him that the next post would return to the druggist, unopened, the box of pills into which, in his night thoughts, the druggist had remembered having put quarter-grains (a lethal amount) of strychnine, by mistake...
Club secretaries not receiving blanks should follow the form of last year and return information at once to Box 161, Cambridge...