Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience so bent on whooping things up that it cheered almost every sentence, whether applause was indicated or not, the Democratic Nominee cried: "A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. . . . Now, when the present management of your team took charge in 1933 the national Scoreboard looked pretty bad. . . . Our national income had declined over 50% . . . from $81,000,000,000 a year to $38,000,000,000 a year. . . . The money to run the Government comes from taxes; and the tax revenue in turn depends for its size on the size of the national income...
...hotel. Another blew up the chief water-main serving the northern part of the city. Fifteen fires by explosions started in various places. Bombed and burned with a loss of 1,000,000 pesos was Parsons Hardware Co., only a quarter of a mile from the great tinder box of the President's Malacañan Palace. Police with riot guns raced through the city trying by a frantic display of energy to conceal the fact that Benigno Ramos' proclamation had completely lulled their suspicions, that they had taken few precautions against such violence, that they...
...Anderson who had once been a Southern Methodist minister, taught school and run for the Legislature, had survived a rattlesnake bite last year, was ready this time to take up not one but three serpents as a test of faith. Holy Roller Anderson shoved both arms in a box holding two rattlers, one copperhead. He was bitten three times. While 100 Holy Rollers shouted and sang, Anderson reeled, was assisted from the platform and taken home. "I'll hold out faithful to the end," he gasped. Last week he summoned doctors. No toxicologists, they watched him die, declined...
...tinkling music box, the harpsichord has two keyboards, as many as seven stops, can produce more than 100 tonal "color" combinations...
...sidewalks of Seventh Avenue, President Roosevelt, in the back seat of an open Pierce-Arrow, waved his tan felt hat. At the entrance to the Polo Grounds, the car crossed the sidewalk, went through a gate usually reserved for groundkeepers' trucks, rolled across the outfield, stopped at a box near the Giant dugout. The President threw out the first ball of the second World Series game, postponed 24 hr. on account of rain...