Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning everything was arranged. The dowager Countess agreed to meet "those terrible Canadians." The new Earl drove to his castle in the village hack, midst exploding railway torpedoes set off by the tenants, and there at the castle door stood a mournful butler in livery with a little black box in his hand. Diffidently, Earl Fred took the little box from the butler, and the patient Trimmers sighed with relief. Their friend was officially installed Lord of the Manor...
...Freshman game team B also trounced team A, here by a score of 6 to 2. Team B did not score, however, until Charles Devens '32 had retired from the pitching mound. While Devens was in the box he struck out five of the six men who faced him. Phineas Tobe '32, his opposing pitcher, except for the first two innings, kept things well under control. Tobe later on also figured heavily in his team's scoring when he cracked out a home run to deep right...
...knew, last week, exactly on what day or in what week or even during which month the British General Parliamentary Election would be held. As leader of the party in power (Conservative), placid Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin could and would send all Great Britain scrambling to the ballot box at whatever time his advisers deemed least favorable to the rival parties (Laborite & Liberal). He might spring a "surprise election" in early May, or dawdle along until late June. So long as docile Britons are called to cast their ballots within the legal period of five years after the present House...
...program is announced as follows: Sonata Written in 1774 Mozart Woodland Sketches McDowell (a) To a Wild Rose (b) From Uncle Remus (c) From an Indian Lodge The Music Box Ludow Intermission Rumanian Folk-Dances Bela-Bartok Marche des Pettits Soldats de Plomb Pierne Fantasie from the Opera "Johnny Spielt Auf" Kvenek
...were more than 850 items at the annual exhibition of Manhattan's Society of Independent Artists in which anyone may exhibit anything by paying $6 for wall space. Youth, often nude, was the keynote. Expression varied from abstractions in wood and rubber to the blushful romanticism of Victorian candy-box painting...