Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City?was commanded by General Juan Andreu. now chief of staff to General Calles. Leaving the Vera Cruz situation quiet in the hands of a subordinate, General Andreu hopped by airplane to the rebel area in the north. Trainload after trainload of artillery (on flat cars) and soldiers (in box cars) which had started from Mexico City for Vera Cruz were switched back and rushed to aid General Calles...
...Lyric theatre in Hoboken is the first musical play that has appeared in recent times in which the chorus was not clad as if about to step into the shower. It is an actual although astounding fact that tights are being worn in this production, and judging from the box office receipts, this unusual procedure is being received with enthusiasm. Clothed figures dancing on the stage appear so grotesque, so hyper-sophisticated that the novelty of the sight has won the patronage of the entire smart set. It is but a matter of time until Ziegfield will be glorifying...
...will, they assured one another, be the right man at last to catch and hold that greased and perhaps blind pig called Prohibition. They recalled Harding and the well-filled whiskey flask (for medicinal purposes) in his White House office desk, and Coolidge, dry as a Vermont tinder box but deficient in the hot crusading flame of the true prohibitor. Now-bless the day-had come a President in whom for years has been seen a steady, scientific glow of enthusiasm for social uplift...
...wife of an Englishman who proceeded to extort blackmail. The identity of the Prince was concealed as long as possible under the designation "Mr. A," and it was not until last year that Queen Mary restored the Maharaja to general English esteem by welcoming him publicly to the Royal Box at Ascot. Cinema cameras caught the whole party smiling and chatting amiably, with no trace of squeamishness or shame on anyone's face...
...vaudeville tour mainly for the purpose of getting his voice in shape for the talkies. He is to make his first talking picture in the Spring. "The talking pictures are a howling success," he said. "In the end, the success or failure of a movie is judged by the box office returns it brings, and in this respect the talkies have surely made good. The talkies are now just in their infancy. If one compares the automobile of 20 years ago to the present model and then judges the talkies by the same rate of development one can imagine what...