Word: hatbox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This traditional model's badge was accidentally originated some 15 years ago by Model Agent John Robert Powers when he gave one of his models a hatbox he happened to have in his office (having just bought a new hat) so that she could carry sundry necessaries with her on her rounds. Usual contents of a model's hat box: make-up kit, extra dresses, shoes, stockings or slips...
...Arthur Conan Doyle would have enjoyed the trimmings. In his old age the author-spiritualist had deposited in the vaults of a little bank in the village of Crowborough, Sussex an old cardboard hatbox. For 25 years it gathered dust as Sir Arthur and his Sherlock Holmes gathered legend. Finally Sir Arthur's son, Adrian, went poking about and last week the secret was out. The hatbox, announced Adrian, contained unpublished writings by Sir Arthur, including The Crown Diamond, a "hitherto unknown" one-act play about Holmes, and a mysterious manuscript entitled Some Personalia About Mr. Sherlock Holmes. This...
Lock, Stock & Barrel. In Waterville, Me., Farmer Ray Gilbert & wife loaded a satchel, a hatbox, a few other small pieces, an iron bed, an automobile, a dog, nine head of cattle and themselves into a boxcar, and headed for California...
...fashionable Passy quarter had not been molested by the Germans. It was ready to receive the ducal pair. Weeks ago the Duchess had cabled her instructions to the decorators (her bedroom was to be midnight blue and white). Another cable had brought the Paris hat now in the high hatbox in the hall...
When she was six, her beautiful, austere, mysterious mother bought her no dresses in one purchase. Biquette spent four miserable years wearing them out. At Christmas her playroom was so filled with toys there was no place to play. She got a trunk full of doll clothes, a hatbox full of bonnets, enough candy to give her indigestion for six months...