Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britain's welcome to the Soviet Ambassador, though delayed, was sumptuous. Two coaches from the royal stable carried the Communist party from their hotel to St. James's. Scarlet-coated footmen were on the box, Ambassador Sokolnikov, trying to look proletarian under his silk hat, sat inside with Major-General Sir John Hanbury-Williams, diplomatic corps marshal. In the Ambassadors' Court at St. James's Palace, the Reds were met by four of the King's marshalmen in peaked caps and Elizabethan costumes (resembling a cross between the Jack of Hearts and a master...
...constitutes a stiff examination in political current events. For professional politicians it is a trying game like "Truth." Last week President Hoover good naturedly watched his "Commission-a-Month Club" recess before it became a "Commission-a-Minute Club." The Hoover "Naval Yardstick" was brought forth in an elaborate box which proved to be empty, though a gridironer insisted it contained "the same yardstick that was used to place agriculture on a parity with manufacturing." A counterfeit Harry Ford Sinclair raced through the ballroom brandishing a revolver in pursuit of the man who said you could not put 100 million...
Jack Dempsey. Discussing people who got in on passes, Judge Landis said severely: "Jack Dempsey had no business in the press box at the last world series game in Chicago...
Harvard opened up fast and after several minutes of play Garrison was sent to the penalty box. Then with only five men on the ice the Crimson drew first blood when Wood, taking the puck on a rebound after a shot by Lakin, sent it past Grodberg. After the second forward line had replaced the starting trio Harvard scored again, this time on a nice bit of teamwork. Stubbs came flying down the ice, turned, flipped the puck to Cross and the Crimson left wing poked it into the net, with the game little more than six minutes old. Harvard...
...seems that the University is going to build some new houses in which to box the college students but the engineers, who until now have roomed with the collegians, are going to be left out. Harvard's only comment came from the publicity office, saying. "The house plan is for the students in Harvard College and not for the other schools of the University. The engineering school is not a part of Harvard College". So it looks as if our country's future Harvard Engineers are going to be just out-of-luck and have to suffer by being separated...