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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line author would probably think he had stumbled into the home of some eccentric country gentleman. Like as not he would be sniffed by a bird dog. On the reception table is sometimes a bag of quail. The stenographer keeps her clips and pins in a dry-fly box. The bookkeeper uses a dipsy (sinker) for a paperweight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: De Luxe | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Olympics' one and only score of the game came in 10.40 minutes of the first period with two Crimson players in the penalty box. Both Perkins and Win Jameson were doing time for illegal checking when Priestly of the Olympics set up the play with a setup pass to Shaugnessy in front of the goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY TEAM BEATS FAVORED JUNIOR OLYMPICS 3-1 | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

...John L. Lewis last week bought a box for the opening in Washington of the union musicomedy Pins & Needles. A. F. of L.'s William Green therefore declined to grace the opening, planned to go on a later night. John L. Lewis then found that he could not attend and canceled his booking. When the first night curtain went up, William Green was in a box seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Green on Pins | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...near the Folies-Bergère. When the Folies first opened it was gaily called the Folies-Trévise, a name which the furious family succeeded in getting changed. The present Duke likes to talk about this regretfully. "My grandparents," says he, "should have settled for a permanent box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Artistic Eaglets | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...hunting instinct rising in him he arose and took form a box one of the firecrackers he had saved for such a special occasion. It made a terrific noise, exciting the other three and driving the creature out of his haunt towards a bedroom. At once there was mass armament--pokers, squash racquets, and hammers were grabbed; one roommate, who went by the name of Bruce, rolled his trousers for protection. After a hasty tactical conference they attacked the bedroom, closing the door afterwards so their would be no egress. Three dropped to their kness; the fourth ascended a chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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