Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Civic Theatre. Last week, the Detroit Civic Theatre opened with its production of The Queen's Husband by Robert Emmett Sherwood. Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford attended the opening and sat in the front row and Governor Green of Michigan, together with municipal officials, occupied a box...
Nominee Hoover took an afternoon off and went to a ball game. It was the New York "Yankees," American League leaders, visiting the Washington "Senators." The Nominee sat himself down in Club-President Clark Griffith's box-the box where Presidents sit at Washington ball games. He was scarcely conscious of an event which feature-writers made into the sensation...
...When a photographer asked me to go to Mr. Hoover's box yesterday, I labored under a misunderstanding and deeply regret that I did not avail myself of the opportunity of meeting him. I hope Mr. Hoover will be gracious enough at some future time to permit me to present myself...
Died. Stephen A. Connell, 55, secret service man who saved President Theodore Roosevelt from an attack by a crazed farmer at the Roosevelt's Oyster Bay home; of heart disease; at St. Louis, Mo. He used to wrestle and box with President Roosevelt, often said, "Teddy could sock...
...lives in Manhattan. "Recently," says he, "a bright reporter, who had read too much, oh, far too much! Sherlock Holmes, conceived the brilliant idea of visiting my home (I live in an old remodeled dwelling of many apartments) and checking up on the names in the mail boxes. There he found my own card in one box, and in another box the card of S. S. Van Dine. He twitted me gloatingly with the discovery, and proceeded to levy the most outrageous blackmail-which I paid. (I have since removed Mr. Van Dine's card from the mail box...