Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough to wield one. Dusolina Giannini was 9 when she made her debut at her father's little theatre. At 12, she sang Azucena in 77 Trovatore, a performance in which her father was supposed to be her son. Last week Ferruccio Giannini sat in a box at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, proudly watched his daughter make a formal debut...
...raise money to help cure Agnes, his ailing milkwagon horse. The story that follows is what hundreds of similar farces have taught cinemaddicts to expect, but the gags are new and Director Leo McCarey keeps them sputtering across the screen at firecracker speed. Funniest scenes: Lloyd learning to box from MacFarland's tough sparring partner (Lionel Stander); teaching the dowager patron of a benefit bout how to duck a punch; knocking out Champion MacFarland, whose seconds have accidentally given him a sleeping potion just before the fight. It Had to Happen (Twentieth Century-Fox) is about a group...
...milk, 200 Ib. of butter. Daisy's dam was bought by a Yokohama breeder named Y. Habu, who took her to Japan. During the twelve-month test period, Daisy gained some 75 Ib., now weighs a little more than 1,700 Ib. Kept in a large box stall, she was carefully guarded against undue excitement. She consumed more than 21 tons of food and unlimited quantities of water. A typical daily ration: 40 Ib. of green feed; 12 Ib. of beet pulp; 25 Ib. of sliced beets; 20 Ib. of silage; 20 Ib. of mixed grain feed...
Clearer than any handwriting on the wall is the ballot in the Senior class election. At the bottom of that document the glove is flung down to the unwary voter: "DO YOU APPROVE OF THE CLASS CONSTITUTION?" Following this challenge there is a small box in which one's assent is to be given. Assent, indeed, but what of the man who does not approve? Either the Student Council believes such subversiveness impossible in a Harvard student, or else feels secure enough in the saddle so as to brook no opposition...
Last week Wisconsin's Supreme Court ruled that anyone may name a cigar after the President, use his picture on the box. Reversing a lower court ruling by which a Milwaukee manufacturer had been enjoined from producing a "Franklin D. Roosevelt" cigar because another firm had got one on the market ahead of him, Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry declared: "The fact that it is in poor taste and shocks our sense of propriety . . . does not make it illegal or unlawful...