Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot shako of lion's mane. A large crowd awaiting General Italo Balbo cheered him by mistake. Day later, wearing a pith helmet, he returned to lunch with the President. His soft Amharic had to be interpreted. In the Blue Room before the meal he flipped open a box and drew forth as royal presents for the President two lion skins and a photograph of his father-in-law in a gold frame. (President Hoover had sent the Emperor his autographed photograph for a coronation gift.) The meal that followed was a difficult one. President Roosevelt's stomach...
...snatching August Luer, aged Alton, Ill. banker, St. Louis police and Federal agents tracked down and arrested one Percy Michael Fitzgerald, ex-convict and burglar, known as the "Dice Box Kid." His confession led to the arrest of three other men and two women. The police also found the place where Banker Luer had been hidden on a farm between East St. Louis and Madison. Shiny new screws in the floor of the tool shed aroused their suspicion. They ripped up planks, discovered beneath them a pit from which a narrow tunnel led into a dark cave-the cave where...
...years before, trooping into famed Castle Garden, rowing out to the late Phineas Taylor Barnum's famed Chinese junk Keying which Barnum had built in Hoboken, claimed he had had towed clear from China. On the right a full load of 100 Irish immigrants and baggage, including the box of one "Pat Murfy. For Ameriky," debarked from a three-masted British ship. In this, as in all his work, able Painter Samuel B. Waugh had mixed a slapdash effect with some realism...
...striking feature. Tickets were sold out long in advance. This time they were still on sale 20 minutes before the curtain rose. Faced with a deluge of cancellations, Propaganda Minister Goebbels had proclaimed that unsubscribed tickets would be distributed to loyal Nazis. When Chancellor Hitler entered the Wagner family box the audience rose to its feet, extended right arms in the Nazi salute, cheered wildly, had to be hushed into silence. Mindful of strictures caused by the audience's bellowing ''Deutschland uber Alles" after the first post-War Festival in 1924, officials distributed printed slips stating...
Reports that Hitler was angered by the inclusion of Jews in the Festival company, invited by Frau Wagner, were dispelled by the presence of her son Wieland in Hitler's box, announcement that he would remain to hear Richard Strauss conduct Parsifal and Elmendorff's directing of the Ring cycle. Frau Wagner, to whom the Chancellor has often been rumored engaged, was busy backstage during the performance, did not join his party...