Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showed up at Malahide Castle in person, got on well with the family, in 1927 came away with the Malahide Papers for a rumored $300,000 to $500,000 (TIME, March 9, 1936). Three years later he got another batch that Lady Talbot discovered in an old croquet box. She had carefully inked out all of Boswell's uninhibited indiscretions, gave experts the 18-month job of restoring the deletions. Not until the mid-'30s were the Malahide Papers issued, in a $900 limited edition of 570 18-volume sets...
...boss, said that the trouble had started out on the highway when the convicts refused to work. He said that he had intended only to punish the ringleaders. He was defiant: "I got a right to knock 'em in the head and drag 'em to the hot box if I can't put 'em in anyways else." But he insisted that he had not fired until a Negro lunged for him, grabbing at his revolver...
...biggest box-office draw of the summer has proved to be the second series, when all nine of Beethoven's symphonies and two of his piano concertos will be presented under Dr. Koussevitzky. The final series, like the first, includes works from Haydn to Hindemuth, with the Festival chorus under Robert Shaw, who last brought his talents before University audiences with his choir concert at the Music Symposium in May, directing one concert which is to feature the Mozart "Requiem...
Rose retorted in the unabashed and irreverent prose that has won him more newspaper clients than most pundits have. "It's true ... I blow an occasional soap bubble while on the soap box. But what's wrong with that? . . . I've often heard more sensible talk in a barber shop than I've read in a week's issue of the Congressional Record...
...black-bordered box that resembled a card of condolence, an editorial in the New York Post last week began: "This is an expression of sympathy to the friends and families of those of our readers who will die in [Fourth of July] accidents . . . through the carelessness of themselves or others...