Word: pasteboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Criss-Cross) : "From Greenville, Ohio, I received a heavy brown pasteboard box, which I carried to the stage of the Globe Theatre, Manhattan, and opened in the presence of a notary public. It con tained several scrapbooks, with clippings, photographs, letters and a typed autobiography up to 1890 of my late friend, Annie Oakley Butler, ablest markswoman in history, who died last month (TIME, Nov. 15). There was no letter of explanation but it seemed apparent that Annie Oakley, with whom I played in a circus some 20 years ago, wished me to be her Boswell...
...former figure of $3 and are now commanding $5. This raise in prices did not affect undergraduate applications for single seats the price to students for each of these three games being set at $2 for the first seat, and then either $4 or $5 for each additional pasteboard, depending on whether it was for the Dartmouth, or the "Big Three" games...
...commonest form of betting is associated with the turf. Accordingly, the proposed 5% tax on betting of all sorts included in the new Churchill budget (TIME, May 3) roused the ire of Britons last week, chiefly because it will tend to raise the price of England's most popular pasteboard commodity: a betting ticket on the Derby, Grand National or other "turf classic." Within the House of Commons, notables waxed wrathful at daring, chubby "Winnie" Churchill, Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer...
...effect on the alumni is likely to be similar, but from a more personal standpoint. While it was a matter of chance whether or not the average alumnus was able to get his precious pasteboard, he was sport enough to be a good loser when necessary. But now that there has been added to this a financial question, he may feel that his sporting chance has been supplanted by a plutocratic rule. His loyalty will not waver, but he may feel hurt that his chance to cheer for, fight for, and support his team has been put on a money...
Scaramouche has already been greeted as the finest French Revolution yet brought to the screen-and even if you are a little weary of seeing a strongly American band of sans-culottes demolish a pasteboard Paris, you should not miss Scaramouche, for it is quite the best thing Rex Ingram has done since The Four Horsemen. The story follows Sabatini's novel closely enough-the stroller-swordsman hero (Ramon Navarro) is dashingly effective-the scenes of the storming of the royal palace are incredibly exciting-the Danton of George Siegmann presents, for once, a hero rather than a ranter...