Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because it is a final gesture of a vain, pompous society to give a rich man an expensive funeral, a poor man a box in a field: a last earthly proof of the snobbery and hypocrisy of civilized social structure...
Organized as the 74th Congress, the Senate and House proceeded to open their marching orders. In joint session, with the Cabinet sitting among them, below galleries jammed with diplomats and famed ladies (Mrs. Roosevelt's party of guests exceeded the dimensions of the Presidential box, overflowed into the gallery aisles), the Congressmen listened to President Roosevelt report on the State of the Union (see col. I). Three days later, like good soldiers, they listened to their first detailed instructions in his budget message...
...survive they would confuse the solar system. Within five generations one oyster's offspring, closely packed together, would bulk eight times as large as the earth. Last week on the first day of the 74th Congress, Representatives, less prolific than oysters, dropped 2,964 bills into the bill box at the right of the Speaker's rostrum, an average of almost seven bills per man. If all of them survived the U. S. would likewise be in sore confusion. But the chances of a bill's surviving are like the chances of an embryo oyster. Legislative name...
Rare among musicians is Pianist Artur Schnabel, the squareheaded little Austrian who refuses to publicize himself and chooses his programs to suit his own taste. To his manager's concern, Schnabel would play only Beethoven at his concerts last year. But when the box-office takings were reckoned he had proved to be an outstanding success of the season...
Their repertory includes most of the old favorites: "The Gondoliers," "Iolanthe," the "Trial by Jury," The Pirates of Penzance," "The Yeomen of the Guard," "The Mikado," "Princess Ida," "Cox and Box," "H. M. S. Pinafore," and "Patience." Portions of many of these operettas have been sung by glee club members since time immemorial, and it is to be expected that some usually enterprising devotee of Gilbert and Sullivan will be so swept away as to join in the choruses from the audience...