Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first victory of the season, the Freshman baseball team overwhelmed the St. Anselms nine by a 22 to 6 score knocking the visitors first pitcher out of the box in the first inning when Harvard scored eight runs with five hits one of which was a home run by W. B. Wood...
Walter Johnson, longtime pitcher and now manager of the Washington team, entered the President's box, handed him a shiny white baseball. President Hoover stood up, held a pitching pose long enough for cameramen to get the picture, then hurled the ball high and far to Umpire George Moriarty...
...Rainbow Man (Sono-Art). A new, independent producing company has probably fulfilled its intention of building a box-office success on the Jazz Singer formula around Minstrel Eddie Dowling. When Dowling's pal, an acrobat, is dying after a fall from a trapeze, he promises to take care of the acrobat's little boy and keeps his promise through some amusing and a number of saccharine episodes, a love affair, and recurrent Irish-tenor melodies. Best shot: the audience in the Arcadia Opera House. Best song: "Sleepy Valley...
...They were married in 1902, have been separated for several years. Mr. Hays asked custody of Will H. Hays Jr., 14. Died. William L. Strong, 44, of Peoria, Ill., famed lightning calculator; on a rail-road viaduct in Bartonville, Ill., where he was mentally adding the figures on passing box cars for practice. Calculator Strong told builders the number of bricks needed for walls, computed cube roots in his head, invoiced store stocks from memory. Always he said: "I don't know how I do it." A year ago he had a red granite stone...
Editors Note: In all justice, give the little girl a hand. A child's scornful indignation at the antics of the big brother can only be equaled by the latter's wrath at finding his paint box exhausted in the interests of embryonic art. Such attention must be significant whether deserved or not. It was not so long ago that the long, long haired sister expressed a preference for the military buttons of the soldier boy. The present comment is at lest an indication of the fact that the same benevolent attention is bestowed upon the irresponsibilities...