Word: bandbox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fenway Park is a bandbox of a baseball stadium that holds about 25,000 people on a good day with a bang-up ball game. Around the field on opening day, Tuesday, were scattered a bare 9,600 devotees of the national sport, waiting to see what effect the tightened draft regulations have had on the caliber of professional baseball...
...stone's throw from the bandbox grandstand, fires burned and horses were shod in emergency blacksmith shops (it takes from two to three hours to shoe a harness horse: each shoe is put on at a different angle). Harness makers, like ambulant country storekeepers, set up business outside their trailers. Bearded drivers displaced Empire's familiar, flashy midget jockeys in white duck...
...Gaullist movement has found its loveliest voice. She sang last week at a new Manhattan cabaret, the Blue Angel, opened by balding, long-nosed, toothy Herbert Jacoby, ex-secretary to France's imprisoned ex-Premier Leon Blum. Chic as a Paris bandbox, its jet-black walls garnished with white lilies and orchids, the Blue Angel gave off more than a suggestion of the smarter mortuaries. But it ceased to be funereal when a swarm of De Gaullist refugees and friends produced an opening-night crush of such confusion that New York Daily News Columnist Danton Walker...
Rolling up a record-breaking total of 84 points, the Freshman basketball team swamped Nichols Junior College 34 to 59 in the losers' bandbox gym Saturday night...
...bandbox outdoor rink handicapped both teams and helped prevent any further scorng. Goalie Jim Summers had little trouble in chalking up his third shutout of the season, just three days after he had blanked the Milton aggregation...