Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief, "The Ghost Train" is a sad, sad, business, a mystery show in which every customary spooky manifestation is trotted on, from the waving of mysterious crimson lamps outside the windows to the usual unexplained noises made by a stagehand hitting a cracker box with a bungstarter in the hope of representing, we suppose, a spectral game of craps...
...countries, but the spittoon is the worst. I don't see the use of it, either. If it be in deference to the opinion of society, I for one, would rather not be obliged to imagine constantly what may be inside that circular orifice. I prefer the box of sand, which is a candid piece of furniture, and invites contemplation. But why one should be troubled with either, when everybody uses the carpet, is not satisfactorily proved to me, by any means...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS) under the sub-caption "Fifty Cents" you say "Governor Smith accepted the customary witness fee?50 cents?which he dropped into a Roman Catholic poor-box...
...rear its inverted bulk on the Presidential platter. Mr. & Mrs. Frank Waterman Stearns of Boston were the only White House guests, so there was plenty for all.* Dinner was served in the evening after a day, more springlike than autumnal, during which President & Mrs. Coolidge sat in a box at Keith's Theatre and heard a sermon on "The Real Thanksgiving" by Rev. Jason Noble Pierce, whose First Congregational Church is being repaired...
...fruit; a musical attachment designed to play certain tunes. This machine-the "Baker Bar-ette"-is usually made with a red-lacquer finish. Some are equipped with the heads & tails of animals (cock, horse, dog) sticking out at either end, to support the leaves which, when folded, cover the box, and, when unfolded, serve as a depository for used glasses...