Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secured a visaed passport, but when he set out to buy a boat ticket John Thoening found that he had too little money. So he took a jug of water, a string of sausages, some pumpernickel, a hammock and crawled into a big wooden box. A friend nailed up the box and wrote on the top of it an address in West 84th Street, Manhattan. The box was put aboard the Hamburg American liner, Cleveland; by the time that the Cleveland reached the high seas, the inside of the box was a filthy place indeed. John Thoening, its occupant, squirmed...
Last week, in Manhattan, a checker at the customs pier noticed a large wooden box with a loose board. Thinking it a good chance for performing his function, the checker stood next the box and reached in with one hand. Feeling the touch of some clammy thing, a wolf or a corpse perhaps, he screamed "I am bitten," and ran furiously along the pier. A less timid checker then went gingerly up to the box and pried it open. In the bottom of the box, cold and still alive, was scatterbrained John Thoening. He said he had not eaten...
...Escape. The big city is where men drink raw liquids, where women are ruined, where everybody comes to a bitter end in a little black box. But the hero (William Russell) and the heroine (Virginia Valli), after typical experiences in a night club, escape just in time to the country...
...Lampooners put up a game fight, but from the moment when Mayor Jimmy Walker, or at least some one who thought he looked like Jimmy, threw out the first ball they never had a chance. Bob Lampoon, diminutive southpaw, started the game in the box but being somewhat erratic was soon replaced by Philip Hichborn '29. Hichborn found the going under foot somewhat slippery but on the whole did very creditably...
...reports last night from both State and Wall Streets indicated something akin to a serious financial panic following the rush of Lampoon supporters to cover bets which apparently were placed in a moment of mistaken confidence. Rumors that Philip Hichborn '29 would replace the veteran Bob Lampoon in the box for the humorists, and that V. O. Jones '28, versatile CRIMSON tosser, would be unable to play are believed to have caused the rash action of the Lampoon rooters. Word got around yesterday, however, that the CRIMSON is firmly resolved to maintain the integrity of its football traditions and that...