Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge: "Here he is. You asked for an interview. I saw him go by with a box of bait very similar to the box they gave me in Superior...
...stock remark of tourists who catch sight of President Coolidge in northwestern Wisconsin. Brown, brisk, he continued his vacation last week unirritated. He cast flies on the Brule River at all hours and put the largest fishes which unsuccessfully tried to eat the flies into the Cedar Lodge "live box," so that he could display them to visitors or eat them at pleasure. He kept his semiweekly office hours in the high school library at Superior, and made one unscheduled trip on which Mrs. Coolidge accompanied him. She sat quietly at the window while he signed some papers...
...each of the three mornings on the train, passengers receive copies of the Overland Mail at the breakfast table. A box on the front page greets them with: "Good morning! How did you sleep?" No attempt is made to cover current news, the papers being printed before the train leaves Chicago (or Los Angeles). But many an oldtime miscellany is published. For example...
...next week, Charles Callan again approached the poor box. Reflecting that the frightening flash had been caused by some short circuit, he had returned to complete his interrupted robbery. Yet this time again Charles Callan was disturbed. A policeman took him by the shoulder and hustled him to court. Here Charles Callan was confronted by a snapshot of himself showing him in a characteristic pose. In a moment Charles Callan recognized St. Joseph's poor box and his own face peering into it. "Whar did you git that there?" he asked the judge who made no reply but sentenced...
...known more about his self portrait, Charles Callan would have been proud indeed. Charles Callan was too stupid to understand that the flash of light which should have been his augury was, in point of fact, a photographic flare which his tamperings with the poor box had caused to be ignited at the precise instant in which an automatic camera caught the features of his startled face. The camera trap was the invention of a policeman, one James O'Donnell, who had already seen his device installed in several haunts but had never before had an opportunity of giving...