Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anthony: "The church occasionally elects a misfit as a Bishop. Without mentioning any names I'll say we have one now. If he isn't a straight out old-fashioned gambler, I wouldn't know one if I met him on the road labeled with box car letters...
Also if you want fifth row orchestra seats from musical comedy box offices the experience of the past suggests a little forethought. Most important of all are the tickets for the game. Inquiry yesterday at the H. A. A. brought forth the fact that only a few 50 yard seats were to be had. As this location is rather desirable, immediate action is recommended...
This departure from the two thirty starting time of previous years is another sign of the tendency on the part of the Athletic Association to attend to the improvement of details. The new padding along the side lines and the much needed protected press box are other tangible innovations. Of these changes the present one is perhaps most gratifying, and the most radical, preferring as it does the convenience of the present to the continuance of an antiquated ruling...
...trail of international wiretappers, murderers, kidnappers, he gumshoes in many disguises along the corridors of the fastest ocean liner afloat. Adroitly he deals with dictaphones, fake wireless messages, the poisoned needle springing from the clasp of a cigaret box. When at last the Master Criminal lies dead and the fiance of the daughter of his old friend is restored to society, he punctuates with a tap of his pipe the famed, "Eleementary, Watson, eleementary." Best shot: dinner 'for two in the arch-fiend's cabin...
...Princeton University is nearby. But always you will see, getting on the early morning commuters' train, getting off the early evening commuters' train, a neat, plump little man for whom a robins-egg Rolls-Royce stands at stately attention; for whom a footman leaps from the box; for whom the train will back up if necessary to set this important passenger down at the precise spot he wishes. Plump and neat, he trots between Rolls-Royce and train on trim little trotters...