Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Gilmore '31 is scheduled to take the mound against the schoolboys, with E. B. Samborski '31, heavy hitting right-handed pitcher, serving in the relief role. Robinson will be in the box for the visitors...
...batting order will remain the same as that which faced Groton except that Samborski will cover left field and Gilmore will be in the box...
...Jury. Propped up in their box like boys at a spelling-bee, the new jury gazed with undisguised wonder at chunky Oilman Sinclair, whose broad face expressed confident determination. "Any time the truth comes out it is bound to help," was still Sinclair's attitude, but he was pale now as well as jaunty...
...present incumbents, one is Henry Riggs Rathbone, a statesman of the wet-lipped, silver-tongued variety, with a grandiloquent voice. Mr. Rathbone's parents were in President Lincoln's box at Ford's Theatre the night of the assassination. Mr. Rathbone has never permitted himself, or any one else, to forget this coincidence...
...typical of the age. And posterity may not detect this flaw: "typical" American butter-and-eggers idolized in Lindbergh all the heroism which their own ready-to-wear existence lacked, and would always prefer a Lindbergh to the "honest-to-God master genius" who invented the electric ice box. Author Lewis has concocted the synthetic Schmaltzian horror, only to flay it for having no imagination beyond its mechanistic world, and yet he, concocter, flayer, is a victim of the same mechanism. Crammed with a thousand facts, equipped with test tube and tuning fork, Lewis's laboratory does not imagine...