Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...process of holding them, Yale football men at New Haven added $1,015,705.31 to the University Athletic Association this past fiscal year. This fortune, considered the most money ever collected by a college box office, paid for every other sport at Yale. The net surplus...
Through the light-splotched, angular passages of TutankhAmen's 3,300-year-old tomb at Luxor, Egypt, went Howard Carter and his troupe of delvers to make their ultimate uncovering in the burial chamber of the king, so gorgeously gilded after his youthful death. A great box of translucent alabaster had not been opened...
...spear, commit a bloody regicide serves as a gruelling climax. The Drums of Love. Lovers long ago defeated in their love have brightened many a story with golden shadows of a picturesque despair. Now, under a title which is highly absurd and which has reference to nothing except the box-offices of small-town theatres, with a background of South American rather than Italian roads and castles, is told the medieval legend of Paolo and Francesca. A huge, hunchbacked, hirsute grandee marries a small and beautiful lady who loves his handsome brother. When the hunchback goes away to war, love...
...began in tear and this impromptu tail trailed after me as I strode across the stage. The audience was laughing, they had seen the predicament I was in, so, keeping on singing. I just stooped down and tore off the entire reel of lace, put it into the jewel box that I have to carry, and slammed the cover shut. I have never before or since received such enthusiastic applause as after that...
...Silver Box. More than 20 years before he reached his present dramatic dexterity, famed John Galsworthy, with a problem buzzing under his bonnet, like a bee, wrote this play. The silver box, a receptacle for cigarets, is stolen by a rebellious drunkard, Mr. Jones, to express his antipathy toward the upper classes who have deprived him of the privilege of working for a living. His wife, a charwoman, is suspected of the theft; but before the case reaches court, it becomes obvious that the true culprit is vapid young John Barthwick Jr. who, in a state of supreme inebriation...