Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospect of owning football and baseball teams in the same city last week caused Mr. Marshall to discourse to reporters on one of his favorite dreams, the ideal sports stadium. This, planned for Boston in the near future, will be glass-enclosed, with movable bleachers and a press box on a monorail to follow the plays in football...
...Akron, Ohio, last week Radio Announcer Graham McNamee received nothing worse than a bad bump on the head when a soap box mounted on wheels and driven by one Paul C. Brown of Oklahoma City coasted down a 1,181-ft. hill and knocked him and his assistant off their feet, near the finish line of the All-American Soap Box Derby which they were trying to broadcast. At the crash, timid Mrs. Betty Searles fainted. After it, daring Maurice E. Bates of Anderson, Ind. won the Soap Box Derby and a four-year college scholarship offered by Chevrolet Motor...
...Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera returned to Manhattan last fortnight from a two-month jaunt around Europe. Briskly he began to tell of plans for this winter's 14-week season in the nation's last remaining permanent opera company. There will be no reduction in box-office prices ($8 top). There will be fewer star performers singing at the Metropolitan...
...Director. When the Metropolitan Opera was organized 52 years ago, William Astor got himself Box No. 7 on the left wing of the Golden Horseshoe. Son John Jacob and Grandson Vincent successively inherited it. Last week handsome Mrs. Vincent Astor, who has done good work as a money-raiser for the Philharmonic-Symphony, was elected a Metropolitan director, the third woman on the board.* Manager Johnson: "We have won a great victory...
...given last week in Deep River, Conn. was an earnest lady in a brown evening dress named Lotta Van Buren. She delivered explanatory remarks. She plucked twangy notes with a crow's quill on a monochord. She strummed on a psaltery which looks like a large, shallow cigar-box with strings. Standing up, she tinkled on an octavina. Sitting down, she bowed away on a viol, played a virginal. She blew into a black wind instrument called a recorder. Lotta Van Buren had so performed twice a week since July, would continue through September. She organized the Deep River...