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Word: shoebox (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Park, 111. shoe Storekeeper Sam Ragalie boasted to a customer that he had just saved $150 from gunmen by keeping it in a shoebox, not in his till. Few minutes later the customer returned with a pistol, demanded and was given the shoebox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fire | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...Albany, N. Y., traffic was halted while Patrolman Henry Kasten pursued a skittering white rat around corners, under the wheels of vehicles. Captured, the rat was put in a shoebox, locked up in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Twins | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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