Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under way. About 100 technical papers have already been published concerning the methods of instilling the heat and fully that many papers are ready for publication. In Detroit last week staff men of the Henry Ford Hospital told the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology about a hot box designed by Dr. Walter Malcolm Simpson of Dayton and President Charles Franklin Kettering of General Motors Research Corp. From Dayton Dr. Simpson published a report in last week's American Journal of Surgery about his success with a hot water bag which Dr. Charles Robert Elliott of Seattle...
Official returns, as finally released, showed an increase in the total number of voters so phenomenal, compared to Danzig's last election, as to suggest ballot-box stuffing. Even so the Danzig Nazi Party failed to reach its Constitution-scrapping goal of 67% of the votes, polled 59-9%, a gain of slight importance over the 51% won two years...
Came the night of March 15th. The theatre was packed. In a side box, seated conspicuously in full view of the house, sat Dr. Johnson. As the curtain went up on the first act, Goldsmith sneaked out the stage exit into the Mall where he walked for some time in an agony of apprehension. Coming back at the beginning of the fifth act, he reached the wings just in time to hear a hiss from the audience. He was dropping with alarms at this when the hard-boiled manager came up and said, "Psha, Doctor! don't be afraid...
...orchestra began with "I Saw Stars." From a parterre box Announcer Raymond Knight called out that opera was about to be reborn with a Witherspoon in its mouth. A dowager in the audience sniffed and said "sacrilegious'' but even she was wheezing with laughter before the evening ended. For when Manhattan's sedate Metropolitan Opera Company chooses to kick up its heels, there is no funnier show on Broadway...
...stage. But Gatti shuns the spotlight. Instead, cinema pictures of him were shown from The March of Time while the performers sang "Auld Lang Syne." The entire audience rose and clamored for the man who has guided the Metropolitan through 27 years. Gatti stood far back in his box, tears in his eyes, his arm uplifted in the Italian salute...