Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanderings from race track to race track, lands in the thriving municipality of Higginsville, where he falls in love with and marries the eldest daughter of the town's captain of all industries, J. L. Higgins. The attractions of life in Higginsville as the manager of the Higgins Box Factory are not sufficient to divert Rogers from his all-consuming passion for fine horses and when he gets possession of Broadway Bill, a truly superb animal, his business efficiency drops far below the expectations of his father-in-law. It finally becomes a question of the horse or submission...
...Jimmy Doolittle flew a Vultee to a new coast-to-coast transport record of 11 hr. 59 min. (TIME, Jan. 28). Last week an obscure American Airlines pilot named Leland S. Andrews climbed into the Doolittle Vultee at Los Angeles, streaked non-stop to Washington to deliver a box of orchids to Mrs. Roosevelt. After a 12-minute stopover he took off again, hopped to Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field in an hour, zoomed the runways and landed at Newark ten minutes later. Elapsed time: 11 hr. 34 min. 16 sec. Average speed: 212 m.p.h. Immensely pleased at beating...
...somehow fails to click. . . ." complained John Mason Brown in the Post. His critical box score was top that year...
...success that gives little promise of attaining commercial prosperity for its producer and author. Latter probably will be praised more than he will be paid. . . . A 10-week stay at the Mansfield should be sufficient. . . . Delightful moments are numerous-but pretty arty for a mugg and dreadfully lacking in box-office ability...
When Jan Kubelik fiddled in the early 19OO'S crowds stormed the box office. Ladies' hearts fluttered while he tossed off trills and double harmonics, looking 11ke a picture-book musician with his blazing eyes, his waving mane. Kubelik's hands were once insured for $100,000. He was rich enough in 1918 to buy a million-dollar castle in Hungary. Because Depression left him penniless, Kubelik is again fiddling in the U. S. this season. Last week he played with the Cincinnati Symphony, which had for the occasion a guest conductor-none other than Son Raffael...