Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hothouses and amid his beehives and poultry runs, he retains a robust interest in sport. Before leaving Brussels for Stockholm he issued instructions that detailed news of the Dempsey-Tunney fight be cabled to him. Interviewed by newsgatherers, he said: "I watched Tunney throughout the American Army boxing championship matches in 1919 [from General Pershing's box...
...Sidney S. Lenz, they say, who brought auction bridge to the Western world. Originally a box-manufacturer in Michigan, he had tried all indoor sports and wearied of them through sheer dexterity. He had bowled and become a champion. The ping and pong of pingpong, in all their manifold trajectories, were so simple to his touch that it became a bore for him to play with most people, unless he had a book to read at the same time. His bureau drawers were cluttered with medals for billiards, his shelves with cups for golf. He went off around the world...
...jumps to death from the bridge- which is regretted, because Tom was only going back to get a divorce, and everyone is sorry to see Renee fade out of the picture anyhow. Like Subway Sadie, Tin Gods overlooks a gold mine to find only enough grist to keep the box office grinding...
...thrill of finding out things other people do not know, things perhaps told you, a newspaper man, in confidence and not for publication. There is the feeling of being on the inside and learning just why the wheels go round. There is the fun of sitting at the press box at a football or baseball game and exchanging opinions with the other sports writers. Above all, there is the inevitable mental heave out of seeing in print the things that one has written...
...Spain, and of a romantic worldling who came to the magician's wood to learn the making of gold for his sister's dowry; of how this lad, one Ramon Alonzo, did not rest until he had rummaged through the magician's spellbound shadow-box and found that which ends the story as all fairy tales should end. There is a certain philosophy of shadows woven through the pages, but the book is mostly music...