Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What with house-to-housing for cocktails, dialing in on the Bishop's sermon, jamming into a box for the Christmas matinee, going to another dance; and what with municipal Christmas trees, stuffed store windows, red Santas on the street corners and grimy urchins in the alleys, the metropolite has Yuletide sports aplenty. In the country there are house-to-housing, dialing, village Christmas trees, bob-hitching behind autos, fashionable coasting at the country club, taking of pictures of the house, going to another dance, telephoning the neighbors. . . . Here and there the yule-log is still drawn...
Specially designed to soothe the ear and tickle the rib are these items on the song and dance schedule: Lady, Be Good; Kid Boots, Music Box Revue, I'll Say She Is, Dixie to Broadway, The Grab Bag, Rose-Marie, Ziegfeld Follies...
...problem is to study the total brightness of the corona. For this purpose we have four photometer, cameras, consisting of a box with a plate at one end and a pinhole at the other...
...exceptionally rough game, during which five players occupied the penalty box at one time in the final period, the University hockey team defeated the Boston University sextet 6 to 1 last night in the Arena. Captain Beals celebrated his return to the lineup by scoring two goals, and playing an aggressive brand of hockey which did much to keep the H. F. skaters almost constantly on the defensive...
...starting lineup. Newell played goal. Beals scored his second goal of the evening in short order, and at this point the Terriers, with their captain, Kontoff, as the principal aggressor, began to rough things up. The Crimson players retaliated, and for the balance of the game the penalty box was rarely unoccupied. In the final period, a collision with Beals so injured Kontoff that he had to be removed from the game...