Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the Box bill to prevent naturalized Canadians and Mexicans from commuting to work daily across the U. S. borders...
When sealed, the simple mahogany box lined with lead was placed upon a catafalque. Splendrously a mass was sung. Then reverent hands lowered the Queen Mother to her last rest in the Panteon de los Reyes. There many a sovereign of Spain?including Maria Christina's husband, Alfonso XII?already, lay, each in a black marble sarcophagus lettered in gold. Into a similar sarcophagus went Maria Christina Henrietta Desiree Felicite Réniére de Espana...
...retail price of a box of matches is fixed by law at two lei (1.18?) for 1929, but after July, 1930 will be jacked up to three lei (1.77?). Royalties approximating $3,000,000 annually will be paid to the State, and the Trust agrees to retain Rumanian workmen in the local match factories. Legislation embodying these momentous arrangements was voted, last week, by the Rumanian Chamber of Deputies...
Married. Fannie' Brice (real name: Borach), 37, famed Jewish comédienne (Ziegfeld Follies, Music Box Revue, Fio-retta), onetime wife of famed bond-thief "Nicky" Arnstein; and Billy Rose (real name: Rosenberg), 29, Manhattan song writer (Barney Google, Me and My Shadow); in New York City Hall, by Mayor James John Walker. Songwriter Rose offered the Mayor $1, promised him another if the marriage was successful...
Attack. For the first few days, Sir Joseph was constantly in the witness box. First salvo for the prosecution was Lawyer Miller's statement of intent: "We hope to show that Sir Joseph has built up an organization which is the finest of its kind in the world and has a strangle hold on the picture business. . . . He has established such contacts with the richest clientele in the world that scarcely anyone else can sell an oil painting. He has built up such a business that when he condemns that picture it is dead, and he knows...