Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Here's one for you?listen to this: Ashland Avenue Baptist, printed in Lexington, Ky., on the front page of a church publication in a box of heavy black type: 'Recently the papers published how Governor Smith came near to a serious accident driving fifty miles an hour down Broadway while intoxicated. He was driving the car himself practicing his wet gospel...
Joseph Montana, "king of bootleggers," felt he needed a new ice box in his apartment on Chicago's West Side. He ordered one weighing 500 Ibs. Two draymen delivered it last week. As they placed it on the rear porch, the porch gave way. Down, three stories, plunged icebox and draymen. One drayman died...
...picking records, a buyer will buy from his first impressions. The above list is picked from having heard them some forty or fifty times. Anyone will tire of some records sooner than others-For example, JUST IMAGINE belongs in the second class, NAGASAKI in the first. The Music Box...
...sources. From Telok Belong in Dutch East India are harvested each July between 10.000 and 24,000 tons of pepper seeds known as Lampong. Alleppy and Tellicherry pepper comes from India and is harvested in December. Before they are used for seasoning, the seeds are ground, packed in tin boxes, and given a label. But whether Lampong, Alleppy or Tellicherry vines bore it, whether bought in an exclusive delicatessen shop or in the Great Atlantic & Pacific tea store, no matter what the box or price, all pepper tastes alike...
...Detroit Civic Theatre possesses now an endowment of $200,000 which has been provided by 30,000 of its patrons. Box-office profits go back into the sustaining fund of the theatre. This year the Detroit Civic Theatre will present for children several free performances of plays selected by school teachers; also an outdoor performance of some as yet unnamed classical play with the assistance of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. In addition it will maintain its own school of dramatic...