Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This was a bad mistake. My wife operates our apartment on an open-door policy. That is, she always keeps both doors unlocked, a big jar of candy on the television set, a bag of apples by the refrigerator, ice cream and soda pop in the refrigerator, and a box of cookies on the kitchen table. It's understandable that our place is a favorite hangout for the neighborhood kids. And there are lots of them. Sometimes they come in platoons. It isn't uncommon to see ten of them sprawled out in front of the television...
...These experiences produced a brief but scholarly military report, Campagne de I'Armée du Potomac, published in 1862. A more impressive record was the prince's watercolors of life among McClellan's soldiers; everywhere De Joinville went he carried his paint brush and color box...
Oldtimers at the Metropolitan Opera knew McNair Ilgenfritz only as the man who regularly rented Box No. 1. Other people recognized him as a retiring little man who wore spats and a bowler set at a rather rakish angle, and spent his life commuting between Paris, Newport and Philadelphia. They also knew that he liked to write music, and that he played the piano at parties and played well...
...moviegoers, 1953 was almost a banner year, in a half-mast sort of way; considering that there were not so many pictures, there was a surprising number of good ones. To moviemakers sitting in Hollywood, the year was one of the most worrisome in history. The box-office collapse, caused by the ever-widening spread of TV, became calamitous in 1952. By year's end the weekly audience was cut in half, and box-office receipts were down nearly 30%. Then, early in 1953, came the 3-D craze, launched in December 1952 by Arch Oboler's inept...
Hollywood's box-office trouble in 1953 expressed itself occasionally in resentment against the halter of censorship and public prudery. The Moon Is Blue, a cheerful little comedy that dares to use such words as "pregnant" and "seduction," became a sort of test case. Although banned by powerful church and civic groups, the picture showed to capacity crowds...