Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Locked deep in Widener's expansive hulk lie a red cardboard package tied with red silk cord, and a long wooden box, painted brown. Thereby hangs a tale...
...Tercentenary, President Conant did up a box for 2036, if the Martians haven't sacked the College and burned up Widener's archives in the meantime. The packets inside the box are made of rag silk, so they won't smut and discolor the contents...
Free offer of a hermetically sealed box by a firm was vetoed by President Conant, because of the danger that lack of air might lead to chemical decomposition of the contents. But for the 1936 president who knows his chemistry, the 2036 president might ceremoniously open a box full of dust...
Chapter 5. Next year the company did better, ending 1933 with a net loss of $4,384,000. The day President Roosevelt signed the 776 amendment to the Federal Bankruptcy Act (June 1934), RKO filed under the new law. Handsome box-office returns on Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in 1934 helped RKO to end the year with a net loss of only...
...edition is its unquestionable authenticity and completeness. Texts of Boswell's "Tour to the Hebrides" are nearly as old as the tour itself, but until 1936 they have been shot through with omissions and corrections by non-Boswellian hands. Lying away in the grey dust of an old eroquet-box in Malahide Castle for over 150 years the original manuscript in Boswell's handwriting was accidentally bumped into a few years ago. At first sight of the papers, Colonel Isham, the discoverer, who happened to be just finishing the private printing of a nineteen-volume edition of the Tour from...