Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These preballot box rumors perhaps may be the basis for such statements that the Democratic organization gave Governor Horner only "lukewarm support." Like many such pre-election rumors, this is without basis in fact...
...Expecting to occupy the Royal Box, there arrived at the Covent Garden Royal Opera one night last week dashing Prince Arthur of Connaught, son of the venerable Duke of Connaught who is the only surviving son of Queen Victoria. After a whispered altercation with opera flunkies who insisted, "There is some misunderstanding, Your Highness," Prince Arthur and his visibly vexed party were shown into an ordinary box. Reason: although Mrs. Simpson was seated unobtrusively in the shadowed rear of the Royal Box, she was none the less occupying it, in the absence of King Edward in South Wales. With...
...genuinely superb, will doubtless not suffice to interest 1936 in two young lovers who, with money to burn, can apparently find nothing better to do than brood about the life hereafter. If The Garden of Allah, best example of color photography the cinema has so far contrived, is a box-office hit, it will be because of its stars...
...King Edward, after laying his Armistice Day wreath on the Cenotaph in Whitehall last week, was greeted in the Royal Box at Albert Hall by veterans who serenaded him with the song Who's Your Lady Friend? His Majesty then drove directly to dine a deux with Mrs. Simpson at her home...
...LIVE HUNGARY'S MIGHTY FRIEND!" At the Parliament Building only Hungarian Socialist Deputies, who can never forget that Fascism's founder was once Italy's fieriest Socialist, absented themselves but other Deputies and Cabinet Ministers cheered like whooping schoolboys. When Count Ciano appeared in the Diplomatic Box, he was addressed from the rostrum by Speaker Dr. Alexander Sztranyavszky, asked to convey the best wishes of the Hungarian Parliament "to Italy's Heaven-sent Leader...