Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years old when I did that thing," said he. "Yes, I was lying on my little fat stomach on the carpet of mother's parlor when I painted the damned picture. It was with my first box of water colors. It was funny as hell...
...frozen pudding and a bottle of ether met in pitched battle in one of the refrigerating rooms of the Biological Laboratory recently. In the past some students have kept their box lunches and suppers in these "cold rooms." Others have insisted in storing their animals, alive and dead, fresh and preserved, in these same chambers. A showdown between the two factions was imminent...
...happy months. Brock Pemberton has now fitted Lawrence Riiey's opus with a second cast and loosed its lusty voice from the proscenium of the Plymouth theatre, just recently quieted after the robust howls of "Three Men on a Horse." Like its predecessor, "Personal Appearance" is definitely big-box-office. The roar of good, healthy American laughter is long and very loud. Your people, sir, enjoy "Personal Appearance...
...What Collector Isham actually paid for the Malahide papers he refused to say; guesses run from $300,000 to $500,000. That was in 1927. Because he cannily bought all the Boswell papers in Malahide Castle, when Lady Talbot three years later discovered another lot in an old croquet box, Isham got them...
...Chemical Safe Deposit Co. last week went Captain William H. Houghton, U. S. Secret Service chief in New York, and two assistants. They had received, a tip that one Zelik Josefowitz was hoarding a large store of gold coin. Armed with a search warrant, they opened the safe deposit box held by Zelik Josefowitz and two other members of the Josefowitz family. Inside were four bags, the weight of which convinced the agents that their search was ended. Opened, the bags revealed a treasure in the form of $20 gold pieces. For three hours the agents counted, found...