Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jimmy Walker had a box but Manhattan had a police parade so Jimmy stayed at home. Walter J. Salmon, whose Dr. Freeland won the Preakness, was there and so was Publisher Paul Block, who arrived in a private car. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer went in an airplane and was greeted by Brother-Publisher Ralph Pulitzer. "Bath House" John Coughlin, owner of Karl Eitel who did not place, wore an apple-blossom shirt, necktie, hat band. Herbert Bayard Swope, just returned from England, got his red hair wet and Commander Paul V. McNutt of the American Legion had the crease rained...
Timely hitting made up for Harvard miscues afield as the University team sent Hollstrom, Hanoverian mound ace, home with his first defeat of the season. Howard Whitmore '29, in the box for the Crimson, remained cool under fire, allowing only eight scattered blows. Two circuit clouts, by Captain G. E. Donaghy '29 and Stokes Indian first sacker respectively, furnished the fire works as the opposing hurlers fought out a closely-contested pitcher's duel...
...forty years of life in the college yard. It was totally bare of comforts. It contained no carpet, no stuffed furniture, no bookcase. The college library furnished the volumes he was at any time using, and these lay along the floor, beside his dictionary, his shoes, and the box that contained the sick chicken. A single bare table held the book he had just laid down, together with a Greek newspaper, a silver watch, a cravat, a paper package or two, and some scraps of bread...
Whenever this cask arrived, or when there came a box from Mt. Sinai filled with potato-like sweetmeats,--a paste of figs, dates, and nuts, stuffed into sewed goatskins,--or when his hens had been laying a goodly number of eggs, then under the blue cloak a selection of bottles, or of sweetmeats, or of eggs would be borne to a friend's house, where for an hour the old man sat in dignity, and calm, opening and closing his eyes and his jack-knife; uttering meanwhile detached remarks, wise, gruff, biting, yet seldom lacking a kernal of kindness, till...
...purposes of advertising, Life, weekly funnypaper, has started a theatre ticket service whereby seats may be obtained at box-office prices by mail orders sent at least one week before the performance date. There is no charge for the service. To combat scalping. Life seats are not delivered to buyers until after 8 p. m. on the performance night...