Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor where he lay were drawn, and the partners announced that Kuhn, Loeb would remain closed for four days. A few minutes later J. P. Morgan hurried over on foot from No. 23 to pay his respects. So did Morgan Partners Lamont and Leffingwell. At 4:30 a black box was carried out of No. 52, driven to the Kahn home at No. 1100 Fifth...
...what an orchestra can cost when he supported the New York Symphony for his friend Walter Damrosch, went specifically into the Philharmonic's money troubles.* Every possible economy had been made, he said. And well he knows, for he delegates little responsibility, enjoys supervising the tiniest transaction. With box-office receipts off $60,000 this season, he said, the deficit would amount to something like $150,000. He and Marshall Field offered to underwrite the campaign, took over a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria, engaged a staff of professional money-raisers...
...that the medium for introducing a new star should be a picture in which she performs as a prostitute with more principles than profits. In Wharf Angel Toy (Dorothy Dell) is a San Francisco bad girl, rehabilitated by her pure love for Como (Preston Foster). He is a soap box socialist hounded by the police for a murder he did not commit. Turk (Victor McLaglen), also in love with Toy, helps Como escape. This leads to two climactic moments which, like the heroine, appear to have been dredged up from the past: the one in which Como and Turk, after...
...favorite, bumped a loose horse and landed in the water. Delaneige came up to the front a mile from home, leading Golden Miller, Forbra and Thomond II. A girl in the crowd squealed "Here comes Golden Miller." Running easily, carrying his weight of 170 Ib. as lightly as a box of matches, Golden Miller passed Delaneige and the four of them took the last fence together. Delaneige landed ahead of the others but 50 yd. past the jump, Golden Miller caught him again. Delaneige faltered in his stride, and Golden Miller, with a burst of speed, won the race...
...Herold the Helpful, Whitney M. Cook '36; Inebriated Philosophers. Stephen Greene '37 and William M. Hunt, 2d '36; Draper, Hotel Manager and Publican, William H. Ledgard '36; Girl with the Mask, Betty Anne Noland; Girl with the Ring, Lois Hall; Girl with the Ambitions, Miriam Hurwitt; Girl with the Box, Jean Goodale; Elderly Relative and Nanny, Agnes Love...