Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company of cuirassiers riding before. The Royal Princesses followed in other berlins. The Palace guns boomed and between their salvos the great bells in the Capitol belfry could be heard a mile around. Arrived in the Chamber of Deputies, the Queen and her ladies were escorted to a box. Below on the floor were palms and 800 black-shirted Senators and Deputies...
Just before she went on the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House to rehearse her part in the Opera Ball, Mrs. Clendenin J. Ryan left her purse in Box 1, next to the stage. When she finished rehearsing Mrs. Ryan found that a sneak thief had taken her $850 bag, her $250 cigaret case, her $135 pocket money. Among four other rehearsing socialites robbed of $6,000 or more in jewels and cash was Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton whose husband is J. P. Morgan's nephew...
Benign in his little red skull cap His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, to whom Pietro Yon had dedicated his oratorio, sat in a box and listened raptly while Tenor Frederick Jagel, the Saint of the evening, sang first as a shepherd boy, then as the man whom God had appointed to defeat the heathenish Druids and convert all Ireland. Outstanding was the rich ecclesiastical background given by 60 Cathedral choristers. Sixty players from the Metropolitan Opera orchestra traced melodies so lush and curving that they might have come from a Puccini opera...
...program, all Cambridge's forces of law and order are being centralized in Central Square. At present all records have been cleared out of the aged and decrepit cop-cage and no more men report there; one man only works in the musty interior taking care of the call-box reports, and as soon as wiring to Central Square is installed he too will be withdrawn, and the edifice left for a pussy-cat's hunting ground...
...company calls it "Formula 761") and many a druggist sells it without prescription. Last fortnight two cases of sudden death from overdoses of the drug were reported to the Journal of the American Medical Association, one of a young woman in Los Angeles who followed directions on the box and died violently within a week...