Word: hatbox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Times, a Rupert Hughes novel, We Live but Once, an old hatbox- these and other heterogeneous waste materials the Clifton (N. J.) Paper Board Co. converts into paperboard for corrugated shipping containers, folding cartons, shoe boxes. Last week, after a few trial runs, the company's newly modernized $2,000,000 factory was ready for full-blast operation. Clifton turned out 12,000 tons of paperboard in 1932; the plant is now good for 125,000 tons a year...
Every morning for 50 years Roland M. Smythe entered his musty office at No. 2 Broadway, hung his umbrella on the hatrack, opened the hatbox on his big roller desk and placed his hat therein, brim up. It served as a basket for important papers...
...hypochondriac, has sent for Danny to rebuke him for misbehavior with her maidservant, but before he leaves, his aggressive understanding of her symptoms induces her to hire him as a male nurse and companion. When Danny moves in, the most noteworthy item in his luggage is an old-fashioned hatbox just about big enough to hold a human head. When the corpse the police are looking for is found without one, the suspicions which Danny's over-solicitude for her aunt have aroused in Olivia begin to be a ghastly certainty...
...undoing but how he nearly arranges hers. Instead of sending her scuttling to the police, Olivia's growing awareness that Danny has killed one woman and is planning to kill another gives him a fascination for her which, when a curious police inspector is examining the hatbox, makes her remove it before he gets a chance to look inside. Horrified at her reactions, more and more drawn to Danny, Olivia twice tries to run away but comes back both times. The second time is the night that Danny does away with Mrs. Bramson...
...nearby hotel in which a woman has been sensationally done to death. Dan cajoles old Mrs. Bramson so skilfully that he be comes her constant attendant. Olivia be comes progressively aware that Dan is the hotel murderer, that the slain woman's head is in his battered hatbox, that he is going to kill her aunt. Olivia is also aware that she is falling in love with him. Climax of her disintegration occurs when she claims the sinister box as her own in order to dissuade a Scotland Yarder from opening it. Every possible dramatic drop is squeezed from...