Word: hatbox
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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...
...Baby Nora Bayes. Her career happened to Judy even more chancily than her name. Late in 1934 she ended a solo engagement at Lake Tahoe's Cal-Neva Lodge, drove off with her mother but forgot her hatbox. When she went back to get it, a man asked her to sing for him. She was in a hurry, but graciously agreed. The man was Song Writer Lew Brown. With him was Agent Al Rosen. So impressed was Agent Rosen by Judy's singing that for fruitless months he lugged the child around the Hollywood studios while casting directors...
...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...
...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...