Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forbid the batsman to step out of the batter's box in order to disconcert the pitcher...
...listen to the stevedores on the Louisiana levees. He also loved a Creole. When she refused to make an honest man of him, he started Leaves of Grass. (He thought "Leaves" sounded better than "Blades"' but the printer didn't.) He wove the names of a string of box cars upon a broad broken page, "caught the rhythm and made it more rhythmical." He was to spend the rest of his life rewriting Leaves of Grass...
...having a wealth of moundsmen to draw from. Headed by J. N. Barbee '28, one of the leading twirlers in college ranks last season, they include F. B. Cutts '28, Willard Howard '28, R. R. Ketchum '29, and R. M. Whittemore '29, all of them capable men in the box. Cutts' batting eye, which sent him into several games last season as a pinch hitter, makes him also a strong candidate for a post in the outfield when he is called upon to do mound duty...
...CRIMSON array of diamond dusters has suffered from the in roads of graduation, a careful search of nooks and corners of the building has brought to light some material which, if not promising, is at least plastic. The chief gaps to be filled are in the pitcher's box, around the keystone sack, and in left field...
Henry the Fifth. Walter Hampden, in his delvings into the classic drama, happened upon this occasionally beautiful, often bombastic, box-office piece by William Shakespeare and produced it with all the whisperings, stampings, posturings and spur-clankings that generations of Shakespearian ragpickers in the acting profession have taught people to associate with the poetry of the immortal playwright. Certainly the foremost U. S. exponent of this orthodox and dignified procedure, Walter Hampden acts with his usual authority and vigor through the crashing, sometimes too sonorous story that has been visited upon the armies at Agincourt. Henry the Fifth will especially...