Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Black Box. Then Mr. Stephenson gave L. G. Julian, onetime business associate and also custodian of the much discussed "black box" in which the bulk of Mr. Stephenson's documentary evidence was believed hidden, permission to turn over the black box to Prosecutor Remy. There were really two black boxes, both of which the Prosecutor received. The contents of the boxes were not made public, but it was announced that they included, among other papers, checks for $21,000 and for $24,000. Mr. Remy appeared pleased at the evidence disclosed...
...Stephenson's) tenure of office as Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan which then (1924) constituted the "invisible government" of Indiana. Last week Mr. Stephenson took the Indianapolis Times into his confidence and sent to the Times many of the documents contained in the "little black box" where he had foresightedly deposited written evidence of his transactions. The most startling of these documents was a check (which the Times reproduced across four columns of its front page) signed by Mr. Stephenson, made out to and endorsed by Governor Jackson, for the amount of $2,500. It was accompanied...
...Soviets. The present diplomatic separation between Great Britain and the Soviets, he said, the U. S. unanimously endorsed. Dr. Cadman, a less intense, a more mundane orator, had quips and fancies to offer at St. Martin's Church in Trafalgar Square, London. He opened a "question box," a sort of forum during which he offered to answer pontifically questions thrown at him viva voce. Verbally he did what he has been doing in the columns of the New York Herald Tribune* for more than a year. Some Cadmanswers, some Cadmonitions: ¶Rotary gatherings "are not intellectual triumphs. They...
...citizens who previously had hardly heard of Senator Peter Norbeck found his name an almost daily feature in South Dakota despatches. Visitors and delegations to the State Lodge are introduced to the President by the Senator; at the Bellefourche round-up last week the Senator & wife shared the box of honor with the President & Mrs. Coolidge. The State Lodge has, indeed, been located in the shadows of Harney Peak and the shadow of the Senator...
People who had found that they could not go to sleep without reading some new adventure of Mr. Holmes will welcome the news that Author Sir Arthur has made the "discovery of another forgotten notebook of Holmes in a strong box that had been hidden away for years." The twelve stories in The Case Book are conclusive evidence that, despite his dubious doctrines on spiritualism, Sir Arthur has lost none of his persuasiveness in inductive yarn-spining...