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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mother's Day in Chicago, Mrs. William Feller sat, proudly beaming, in a box, watching her son Bob Feller, 20-year-old star Cleveland pitcher, blast Chicago's White Sox. Pock! A White Sox batsman fouled. The ball took Mother Feller in the eye, opened a six-stitch gash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...books. The Pate's Siding folk show about the usual run of rural superstitions: those who prepare for the end of the world during an eclipse are the same who invent the community's ghosts and picturesque fables. Their births, deaths, weddings, coon hunts, corn-huskings, box suppers, hog killings, squabbles, worries, jokes and tragedies are memorable because Author Harris writes about them sensitively and honestly rather than because they are dramatic in themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pre-Ca!dwell | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Tables will be placed on the lawn near Gore Hall and the orchestra will play under the stars against red drapery, Robert J. Glaser '40, chairman of the dance committee announced. He said tickets will be on sale at the box office during the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop House Dance Held In Gore Courtyard Tonight | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

This mighty musical meal over, Cincinnatians stretched, patted their stomachs, paid the bill ($72,000-of which $63,000 had been recovered at the box office) and started to plan for the festival of 1941. Visitors to the May Festival went thoughtfully away, realizing that the nearest thing yet to the muchdiscussed, hypothetical "Salzburg of the U. S." is to be found in Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cincinnati's Festival | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Last week in London King George and Queen Elizabeth, before sailing for Canada (see p. 24), went to hear Maestro Arturo Toscanini conduct a Beethoven concert in Queen's Hall. During the intermission the King invited the Maestro to visit him in the royal box. The Maestro, who once shushed Mussolini for talking during a concert, sent word that a royal presentation would distract him too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Maestro | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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