Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...classmate in the '50s. And the 19th Century was on its last legs in more than a chronological sense when Alice Lee stole up into the gallery of the old gymnasium because her fiance, Theodore Roosevelt (Class of 1880) wanted her to see him box a classmate...
...What Is Your America All About?" blazed the copy, adding apologetically, "You probably know every single fact in this advertisement." Most people indeed did. A box headed ''You are a stockholder in the United States. Inc." related that the country had produced three times as much wealth since the Revolution as the entire world had produced prior to 1776; that the U. S. worker's share of the national in come had risen from 38? in 1850 to 65? in 1929; that there were 44,000,000 savings accounts in the U. S. even in Depression. These...
...past, from the political side. In one form it is precipitated by allegedly patriotic organizations committed to maintain in schools and colleges their own particular conceptions of loyalty. The motives of these misguided folk are, I doubt not, often excellent. But they have opened the cover of Pandora's Box and we may well be fearful of the issue. For example, in many schools American history may now be taught only in terms these self appointed patriots deem desirable. Teachers who will not prostitute their knowledge and convictions to the often ignorant bias of these worthies must find other jobs...
...Finally, in a moderately humane battle, the Whites under General Mola went crashing victoriously along with their trucks and coughing machine guns, entered San Sebastian virtually unresisted. The Anarchists fled back up the coast to Bilbao, announced: "Rather than surrender Bilbao we shall burn it to the last empty box, to the last wisp of straw...
Amid the glens and greensward and deep foliage of rustic North Wales last week, tired Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin rested with his good wife Lucy. In Whitehall his secretaries did their best to keep down the contents of the red morocco dispatch box which had to be sent to the P.M. each day. The strategy of His Majesty's Government for the time being was comfortably described as "masterly inaction" and yet they were in fact most active...