Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Box! After the police departed, Dr. Lo & friends burned confidential documents. Among the items tossed on the fire was a fairly complete list of Kuomintang secret agents. Interestingly enough, this document was retrieved from the flames at a favorable moment by another Kuomintang secret agent (his name obviously not on the list) who had wormed his way into the Democratic League and happened to be serving as a member of the burning party...
Early next morning a Democratic League man hopped into the green Chrysler sedan inherited last year from departing Communist Negotiator Chou Enlai, and drove to the Soviet Embassy. He entered the Embassy with an interesting box, came back to his car without it. Fledgling plainclothesmen got their ears scorched when they reported his visit. "Ai ya!" groaned a Chinese detective superintendent, "Why didn't you pretend a collision, yell, stop the car, claim, the box-anything...
...Thompson had been writing music for Hollywood musicals for years, and auditioning her own songs. M-G-M Producer Arthur Freed would say: "Kay, you sang that great. You are terrific. Now, who will we get to sing it?" No candy-box beauty, lean, angular Kay Thompson was simply one of the well-paid but subsidiary hirelings that some Hollywoodians call "movie trash." Last week, movie trash had become nightclub treasure...
With hopes that the band concert will bring University undergraduates in to the contribution ranks, Mrs. Brewer. Blackall, national chairman of the fund, announced, "If the Harvard Band's box-office appeal is what I expect, we will follow it up with another concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City shortly after the first of the year...
...aural and visual, the band adds hard cash to the gate receipts. Although this point cannot be proven, it also cannot be contested very violently in the face of the fact that the Princeton and Yale Athletic Associations, neither of which can back a band with the reputation or box-office appeal of Harvard's, consider it worth while to treat their horn-players to several trips each season...