Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bellefourche went the President and Mrs. Coolidge, sat in a box with Senator & Mrs. Peter Norbeck, saw the rodeo. They saw 13 steers bulldogged. In bulldogging, the cowboy gallops up to the steer, seizes its horns, slides from his horse and throws the steer on its side by leverage on its horns. Mrs. Coolidge looked away as a steer bulldogged by one Nowata Slim of Oklahoma broke its leg, was shot, dragged...
...full house, only to stagger the crowd by slapping down a royal straight flush for his own account, thus taking the largest poker pot ever staked in that town. With the proceeds he raises a mortgage, facilitates a wedding, stores up treasure in Heaven. Then he ambles into a box car and shuffles off to other good crookedness. Jean Hersholt makes him an engaging...
...began his high-priced acquisitions in 1908 by paying $11,000 for Richard Marquard. In later years the price went up-$50,000 for "Irish" Meusel, $100,000 apiece for Hugh McQuillan, David Bancroft, Henry Groh. Said Manager McGraw: "You can't bring the money into the box office without spending some of it first." Last week, approaching the celebration of his Silver Anniversary as Manager of the Giants, Mr. McGraw was having troubles. His team, even though it is captained by that mighty slugger, Rogers Hornsby, was in fourth place, losing games with exasperating regularity. After suffering four...
...Box 60--E. D. Cole, Miss Josephine Murphy; E. S. Stimson, Miss Janet Conway; W. McDonald, E. F. Gamache, Miss Mildred Killelea; R. Floyd, Miss Dorothy Fry; C. Frazier, A. H. Miller, Miss Margaret Stranahan...
...Box 58--S. E. Gleason, Miss Katherine Smith; D. W. Chapman, Miss Margaret MacGregor; S. L. Eaton, Miss Barbara Sheperd; W. Potter, P. M. Lenhart, H. S. Bokhof. Miss Virginia Hayden; H. A. Secrist. E. D. Pratt...