Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...person known to be out of town. Folding the ballots so that, after they have been cast, they can be read at one peep and quickly "corrected." Concealing pencil-lead under one's finger nails to void ballots by extra marks. Dropping ballots behiA-3 the box instead of through the slot. "The more handling a ballot gets, the surer it is to turn up in favor of the other candidate. . . . And . . . you gotta make sure the ballot boxes are empty before the voting starts. Sometimes we'd put in a few votes just to get things going...
...Alma White, founder and primate of the Pillar of Fire Church. Bishop White, who has thousands of disciples ("Holy Jumpers") in the British Isles, clearly regarded Mrs. McPherson as a poacher upon her preserves or worse. Squired by two male Deacons, the Reverend Bishop sat herself down in a box at Albert Hall, with an air of purposing to break up the revival. The dread potency of Bishop White, when aroused against another female, may be judged from her scathing criticisms of the Church of Mary Baker Eddy: "The teachings of the so-called Christian Science Church . . . have drawn multitudes...
...rest of the press box personnel, besides reporters, telegraphers, spotters, announcers, and radio men, is composed of the leisure class of the newspaper fraternity. The rear rows of the press seats are filled with men from the morning papers, who have no story to send through the game, but can wait until long afterwards to wire a carefully considered account to their editors. Above the din of telegraph instruments and typewriters, these gentlemen sit at their ease, in attitudes suggesting expert opinion in repose...
Blanketed and heavily chaperoned, the Army mule will make its-first appearance on Soldiers Field this afternoon. The Missouri mascot has been conveyed to Cambridge in a special box car, the first time he has been taken so far afield...
Many more spectators than those sitting and standing in the Stadium will virtually be watching this afternoon's game. The four Boston radio stations: WNAC, WEEI, WBZ, and WBET, and the Sheperd Stores' station at Providence, WEAN, will all have their microphones in action in the press box to allow the radio audience a comprehensive view of the marching cadet spectacle, as well as the game itself...