Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Practice will be held on every day except Saturday for Freshmen and beginners, from 2 o'clock until 3, from 3 to 4 and from 5 to 6. Coach Lamar says that all men who come out will probably be able to box in at least one bout even if they do not make the team and encourages all who are interested in boxing to see him. Experience is not necessary as all now men start at scratch. The following schedule has been arranged for the Varsity this year: Dec. 15, M. I. T.; Jan. 12, Virginia at Charlottesville...
Biennially Calvin Coolidge used to board a special train, whisk off to Northampton, Mass., drop his vote marked with a cautious x into the ballot box. His electoral duty done, that President would then whisk back to Washington. In 1928 Herbert Hoover went to Palo Alto to drop his vote and hear election returns which put him into the White House. His ballot in 1930 was cast by mail. In 1932 he crossed the continent for the first and only time during his Presidency, again to vote and hear election returns which put him out of the White House. Franklin...
...Besides, last week she was busy with other plans which would once again bring her name and her voice to millions of music-lovers. When the New York opera season begins in December, she will be back at the Metropolitan?not singing on the stage, but in a grandtier box on Saturday afternoons broadcasting descriptions of the operas which are to be put on the air by Lambert Co. (Listerine). Her comments are bound to be keen and intelligent. She still can sway any kind of audience...
...stairs. With Gatti's permission, she fixed the cubbyhole up, lined it with brocade and put a gold plate on the door labeled FARRAR. Only Conductor Arturo Toscanini, her great & good friend, refused to take orders from the spirited young prima donna. Gatti favored the "star" system for its box-office power. Farrar gave Toscanini diamond studs but the conductor maintained that stars exist only in Heaven...
...original. In the earlier sequences where young Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov (Fredric March) goes to church with Peasant Katusha Maslova (Anna Sten), before seducing her in a greenhouse. Director Rouben Mamoulian allows his fondness for his scene to delay his story. Later, when Dmitri, a bearded patrician in the jury box, again meets Katusha, a prostitute accused of murder, the class antagonism which put them where they are is carefully accented to make more impressive Dmitri's gestures of remorse. The climax, in which he gives away his lands and accompanies Katusha to prison in Siberia, possesses most of the impact...