Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it came time to vote on whether or not Calais should grant licenses "for the sale of malt and vinous beverages" or for "spiritous liquors," the women left their stoves and filed past the ballot box too. They know the men will agree to grant licenses if they don't appear to outvote them. The only time the town voted in favor of selling liquor, no merchant took out a license...
...Varsity goes against Dartmouth tonight in the Garden at 9:30 o'clock and thanks to Cousy, Kaftan, and Mullaney, the H.A.A. will pocket a quarter-share of the cash 13,000 patrons push under the box-office windows. Holy Cross meets Colgate in the crowd-drawing opener...
...bellow: "Want to see my horns? I've got them. I fight chickens, you know. I'm proud of it-keeps me alive." Last week, he was wheeled into a pagoda-shaped, whitewashed building outside Orlando, Fla. and sat, grim and lordly (in a pit-side box built specially for him and his wheel chair). John Kehoe's hand trembled as one of his game cocks, a fierce looking grey muff, was brought into the pit, weighed and made ready for battle...
Although filming real-life stories undoubtedly saves on that expensive cinematic item, imagination, it produces troublesome shortcomings. A documentary approach saves on sets and set-pieces, but the endings, as in real life, are either unconvincing or else must be picked over to be good box-office material. To show the mother scrubbing the floors in the end would be cinematic suicide, even though it's the truth...
...just off the Square and "known from coast to coast," the O.G. did have a violin and piano until 1942; but some always complained because the music never changed. A Community Singing License was refused about the same time, and so spontaneous music left the Grille, and a juke box took over...