Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martha Raye, hippo-mouthed comedienne, was victimized by a busy Manhattan jewel thief who was cleaning up in plushier neighborhoods. (Voice of the Turtle Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr.'s wife was already out $20,000 worth.) Comedienne Raye, who opened her closet and found her jewel box empty, set her loss at $15,000. Among the 16 whim whams missing: 1) a diamond-&-ruby ring (one kite diamond, one 32-karat diamond, 28 bluewhite diamonds, four rubies), 2) a pair of earrings (34 white diamonds, eight baguette diamonds, 3) a diamond-&-topaz ring (18 pearl-shaped diamonds...
Youth for Christ rallies combine the tried & true methods of evangelism with a streamlined box-office appeal that stresses a good deal of amateur-nightish entertainment: Bible quiz shows, sleight-of-hand performers, ventriloquists, close-harmony quartets. The basic precept: "Remember that this is Youth for Christ, and plan your program with teen-age young people in mind...
...half hour later he denied these statements. While he spoke, one of the defense lawyers doodled on a white pad. When Koch had finished, the doodle stood out in heavy black lines, clearly visible from the press box up above. It was a gallows...
...Money. The daughter of an Irish streetcar conductor, she was ten when she earned her first money (25?) for singing. The stage: a bread box in front of a Philadelphia store. Even then, her voice was hoarse, her hair stringy, her teeth protruding. But the Olney neighborhood liked her. By the time she was 17 she was singing in a Camden, N.J. nightclub, where she earned, as combination hatcheck-girl, vocalist and electrician, about $85 a week. The turning-point in her career came when she met a handsome, liquid-eyed insurance broker named Frank Kinsella...
...Rabbits had been eating our lettuce and carrots for a long time and my father was fed up with it. One day my father and I built a trap. My father thought that we should put a carrot inside a box and attach a string to it and the trap door. This held the door open and allowed the rabbit to come in. That is what...