Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...younger brother, who is 72, refuses to fly. The extensive Ball philanthropies include a $1,000,000 hospital, a $1,000,000 Masonic Temple and the Ball State Teachers College. Besides the lucrative fruit-jar business, world's biggest, the Balls's interests include gas fields, box factories and big blocks of sound common stock. Brother George sits on the board of every financial institution in Muncie. And he is an old Van Sweringen friend...
...Nashville night clubs for a year. He arrived in New York the day Lindbergh came back from Paris. Roxy gave him a chance. Next Jimmy sang top tenor with the Revelers, a quartet which has since graduated Frank Parker. You have heard Melton in both the Palmolive Beauty Box and Ward's Family theaters. This winter you'll see him in a movie and continue to hear him on the Gulf Headliners program...
This new contraption, an affair of rope and iron rungs, will be encased in a wooden box with a plate glass front, just big enough to make a beautiful target for your foot. The idea is that at the first peal of the fire alarm, the unfortunate inmate of the room makes a flying leap at the box and kicks the front in. Then in one rapid motion he hurls the rope ladder out the window, first making sure that it is tied to something in the room, and clambers nonchalantly down the wall, trying to act as though...
Died. Charles Siedler Patterson, 71, manager since 1896 of fashionable Tuxedo Park, N. Y.; in Tuxedo Park. When the late Tobaccoman Pierre Lorillard set up a shooting box on the site in 1887, Patterson and his father became his friends, grew intimate also with Parrimans, Tilfords, Rogerses, Wagstaffs, Bakers. The Tuxedo colony grew up under Patterson supervision. Charles Patterson was head of the bank, the fire department, the park association helped run the hospital, horse show, kennel club...
...trotting one mile each day. After graduation and a year at Harvard Law School, he worked in a Lincoln law office a few years until one day his employer called him in, said: "Roscoe, you know enough law. Go see the county bar examiner. And take along a box of cigars." The examiner opened the box of cigars, noted that they were his favorite brand, reflected: "Well, Roscoe, if your boss has educated you as well in the law as he has in cigars, you are well enough qualified to practice. That...