Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leave, No Love), brought the house down when he fell on his knees and burst into tears before Barbara Frietchie. But most of the audience had really come for Sugar Chile's between-the-acts boogie-woogie. Last week My Maryland did an unexpected business at the box office...
Yale nevertheless kept the crowd in a frenzy by remaining within striking distance for most of the route. Their inspired play was led by blond-haired Fred Pearson, when he was not languishing in the penalty box...
Both the President and his mother brightened as he tramped into her front bedroom. She was sitting up in bed. He beamed, kissed her heartily, said, "How are you, mamma?" He gave her his presents-he had a box of flowers under his arm, and two dozen red roses from Mexico's Ambassador Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros in his hand. Then he sat down in a chair to hear the news...
...stepped from the crowd and applied a tourniquet; but gangrene set in, and when the doctors were through with Genaro, both legs were gone at the hips. With a hot rage against life in his heart, Genaro got a little wooden platform to wheel himself around, bought a shoeshine box, and went to the patio of the National Palace to earn his living. He remained silent and bitter as he bent his head over the shoes of ministers, generals, Supreme Court justices. But one day President Alvaro Obregon slapped him on the back, called him Chaparro (Shorty) and invited...
...Denver, a prospective buyer was offered prompt delivery of either a Kaiser or Frazer in a choice of four colors, along with a spare tire, a box of tools, a tankful of gas, and a radiator full of anti-freeze thrown in. In Seattle, a buyer could walk into a showroom and take his pick of 16 cars. In Dallas, salesmen were offering delivery in five hours; the delay was only for servicing, registration, etc. And in Los Angeles, where plans for a K-F assembly line have been shelved, one dealer anxiously asked an impatient customer: "Well, would half...