Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that Dartmouth has hung the Indian sign on the Crimson nine for so many years, however, makes a triumph over the Green much to be desired and it is possible that Coach Mitchell may alter his plans and start Barbee in the box tomorrow, and against Yale in the second game in Cambridge...
...Announce Box-Holders...
There is a certain wealthy widow residing in Washington who had conceived that Mr. Mellon might not inappropriately marry her. Recently she had a birthday and was greeted by a great box of American Beauty roses and a card bearing the name of A. W. Mellon. The rich widow promptly sat down and penned what, it was intimated, was a rather fulsome note to the Secretary of the Treasury...
...office in Cornhill, England, arranging typewritten papers in neat dockets and whistling cheerily as if to show his indifference to the rain that beat a tattoo on his roof -like drumming hoofs, he thought. King George of England sat staring politely into the same rain from a box at a race track. In a leather chair in Berkeley Square, London, Lord Woolavington (once Sir James Buchanan) regarded the lengthening silver ash of his cigar, and though separated from each other by space and, apparently by opposing interests, the fortunes of these three gentlemen were interwoven inextricably. They...
...weapons. The Pennsylvania primary, and the Wadsworth manifesto in New York are examples of the secret power of wet sentiment. For many a candidate, the prohibition issue will be as deadly a potion as ever was wine poisoned by intriguing princes. Thus, a sophisticated danger yet lurks in ballot box politics...