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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chilblains, not sunburn, is what Eve would have gotten if her Eden was anything like mine," said Miss Fannie Brice in a recent backstage interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Miss Brice was appearing in the realistic Eden staged at the Colonial Theatre by the Music Box Review. While removing the grease paints which, with certain arboreal draperies comprised the most striking part of her costume as Eve in the Colonial Eden. Miss Brice subjected the growing tendency of theatre managers toward economizing on fuel to close scrutiny and rigid censure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Chilblains, Not Sunburns" Would Have Been Eve's Due Says Fanny Brice in Rage Against Managers Who Skimp Fuel | 3/2/1926 | See Source »

...majority rule is the superior force of the larger number. No divine right crowns the policy of 51 percent of the people as wise and that of 49 percent as unwise. To the logic of this statement, there seems to be little objection, but the friends of the ballot box argue that in practice it is better to let the majority have their own way. In an editorial of last Sunday's New York Times, the reasoning of expediency was well set forth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNTING NOSES | 3/2/1926 | See Source »

Individual and box applications for the Junior Dance to be held in Memorial Hall on March 19, will be received by the Dance Committee until 10 o'clock tomorrow night, it was announced yesterday by J. R. Burke '27, Chairman of the committee. The committee will not be able to accept late applications and in order to make it more convenient for applicants to make known their intentions, a member of the committee will be in Randolph 48 between 1 and 10 o'clock today and tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR PROM TICKET SALE CLOSES TOMORROW | 3/2/1926 | See Source »

...Each girl and her escort will be assigned to a box...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR PROM TICKET SALE CLOSES TOMORROW | 3/2/1926 | See Source »

...Brooklyn last month John Seles, butcher, was held up and robbed of $40 in his small store. Last week, Taximan John Kirschner entered the store, stood behind Butcher Seles, cried, "Hands up! Get into the ice box!" Butcher Seles whirled, drove his cleaver through the base of Mr. Kirschner's skull, though neck muscles and three large veins. Hospitalized, close to death, Mr. Kirschner said, "I was only fooling." No whit penitent, Butcher Seles said, " A joke, eh? What a joke, I'd say! . . . Yes, his wife, she's a customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Rats, Cat | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

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