Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wild, George White's Scandals, Rang Tang, and other reviews, would be surprised to know that diminutive Aubrey Lyles and tall Flournoy D. Miller (nephew of Bishop Evans Tyree of the African Methodist Church) were undergraduates at Fisk University when they got their first laugh. They had to box together in a gymnasium class, and the discrepancy in their sizes was so ludicrous that each instinctively "clowned it." After that they worked up skits on purpose and still later, caught stage fever. But Aubrey Lyles still has the serious face of the young medical student he once...
...rest of the family to this country 15 years ago. And then, there's Thunder he was born in a terrific storm; that's how he got his name. He was nearly killed several years ago when he reared and struck his head going into a box car. It was just midnight on New Year's Eve some New Year present, eh wot? The other two are Ned and Johnny. Those horses are just like children to me look! there they are," and he of the ludicrous spotted face gazed tenderly down into the courtyard below, where four magnificent white...
...most recent and one of the most prized gift is a calfskin safe deposit box, once the property of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of Massachusetts, and containing various legal papers. Among the contents are a bank bill portrait of Chief Justice Shaw and a number of autographed letters of the great justice, including one to Governor Edward Everett, written in 1839, and indorsing John Knapp for election to a state office...
When he returned to his Malahide Castle in Ireland, Lord Talbot took the little box with him. At Malahide, not long ago, he entertained a friend, one Col. Ralph Isham, who, when he left Ireland, took with him in a suitcase the papers which had once been in the ebony box. The box, now like an old and honored castle made unfit by time for habitation, stayed at Malahide...
...Here comes Jack Dempsey, climbing through the ropes . . . white flannels, long bathrobe . . . friend in a long green coat. . . . Here comes Tunney . . . [blast of cheering from the crowd]. . . . He's got on blue trunks with red trimmings. . . . They're getting the gloves out of a box tied with pretty blue ribbon. . . . The announcer shouting in the ring . . . trying to quiet 150,000 people. . . . Robes...