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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wellesley and Harvard reveal a wide diversity of tastes in phonograph records, according to N. A. Bell of the Music Box, which has stores in both college communities. Comparatively few classical recordings are taken at Wellesley, while the smoother dance numbers are in perpetual demand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Gobbles Smooth Syncopation While Harvard Exercise Varied Taste--Beethoven, Ted Lewis Mingle | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

...grace, and enough of the busy play of expression that belonged to the actor-guardsman. In Hamlet black, with a tight head of red curls that are in a mad way exact for the role, Mosca moves swiftly, and used the stage from footlights to lagoon balcony and from box to box. At times his fingers, fitting the gilded carvings of the Hollis side pillars are all that keep him out of several well-known laps...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

...velvet and the lost arms of Venus of Milo." He tried to drive a coach-and-four through the doorway of a Paris house, putting himself in the hospital for a month. Several times, in dead of night, he raced along the boulevards?stark naked in the driver's box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father & Son | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...last week, to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York wrote Representative John C. Box of Texas, new Democratic whip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Break Up | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...delusion of his pets equalled only by that of blindfolding the mule who pumps the water or of putting electric lights in the hen-house. He plans to put his bees, after they have fondly and hopefully gathered a store of honey during the summer in Washington, into a box and, keeping them literally in the dark as to his nefarious intentions, allow them to hibernate trustfully, secure in the knowledge of work well-done. Then he will ship them to Australia where, when they are aroused, they will again smell summer and start to make more honey, under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEE WARNED | 1/8/1929 | See Source »

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