Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eucharistic Congress. No treasure is too great for Roman Catholics to pour out in their honoring of Christ. Kings brought rich gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the Infant. Mary Magdalene brought to Him her alabaster box of precious ointments and broke it at His feet in her repentance. Cathedrals have gone up in magnificent pomp for the housing of the Host. All have been for the honoring of Christ in the Eucharist...
...Coolidge, Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney, military aide of the President, Mrs. Cheney, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston occupied a box at the afternoon performance of the Barnum & Bailey - Ringling Brothers circus in Washington...
...colors. Was this one of the unknowns - Light Carbine, Roy crofter? They came around the last corner into the homestretch; the strange horse wore E. R. Bradley's silks - he was Bagen-baggage, running-mate of Bubbling Over. Mr. W. R. Coe looked out, ashen-faced, from his box; Pompey had failed, there was no doubt of it; he had broken at the mile-turn. Bubbling Over was out in front, a sure winner, and his striding stable-brother was closing up behind him, passing the faltering Pompey, cutting down Rockman, nosing out Rhinock...
...concert which begins at 8.15 tonight, is as follows: Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa Overture to "Morning, Noon, and Night" Suppe Lotus Land Scott Fantasla from "I Pagliacci" Leoncavallo Suite "Peer Gynt" Grieg a. A. Morning Mood b. Anitra's Dance c. In the Troll King's Grotto Music Box Liadov Deep River Burleigh--Jacchia Ride of the Valkyries Wagner The Student Vagabond Jimmie Selection, "The Vagabond King" Friml Waltz, "Jolly Fellows" Vollstedt Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovasky
...Budapest three judges frowned upon a judicial bench stacked high with counterfeit French francs. Since trial by jury has now been abolished in Hungary, the jury-box -built -for -twelve was pressed into service to accommodate twenty-six defense attorneys. The twenty-four prisoners, who sat close together on three long benches, arose one by one as their names were called, and nearly all confessed to having taken part in counterfeiting the piles of banknotes, but stated proudly: 1) that they had done so by command of their superior officers; or 2) that they had acted from the most disinterested...