Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through a telephone call to Der Führer; in Berlin. Dictator bickered with Dictator until hesitant, pouting-lipped Adolf gave in-barely 40 minutes before eager, dynamic Benito was to address his Senate. Excited Italian socialites, squeezed like sardines into the Senate galleries, pointed knowingly to the Diplomatic Box. In the front row all smiles sat British Ambassador Sir Ronald Graham, French Ambassador Henry de Jouvenel and German Ambassador Ulrich von Hassell-these three ready to squiggle. Just behind them, nervous as squirrels, perched the diplomats of the "Little Entente" (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia) and Poland. They understood from France, their...
...retreat provides ideal concert grounds for Fairfield County natives and the many New Yorkers who summer nearby. Across from the slope where the benches will be built is a seven-acre field where motorists can park free. A window of the old barn will be turned into a box office. The summer concerts will give Sokoloff a chance to spend his tireless energy and to exercise his great talent for building up a musical organization. Next season the New York Orchestra will give monthly concerts in Manhattan, tour around between times to smaller eastern cities which big expensive orchestras like...
...Senate committee was told that on May 15 Richard B. Bevier had come to Mr. Howe with an introductory letter from Basil O'Connor, the President's one-time law partner. After inspecting Mr. Bevier's toilet kits (comb, toothbrush, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush holder, brush. soap box, mirror, shaving cream, razor, razor blades), Secretary Howe asked Budget Director Douglas to come over and have a look at them. Director Douglas was busy, sent a subordinate named Lowery. Instructing Lowery to investigate the cost and quality of the product as compared with the kits the Army was already...
...150th running of the race. To view it came King George in black morning coat and pin-striped trousers, Queen Mary in rose and beige. Nodding to lords & ladies, they marched ceremoniously to their box on the finish line, joined 300,000 countrymen in the cry: ''They...
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Warner). "We see clearly that overproduction of musical films is coming quickly ... as a result of the fact that 42nd Street has broken box office records: therefore, after Cold Diggers of 1933, we will produce no more musical feature-length pictures . . . until the imitative craze dies down. . . ." This smug bit of ballyhoo, by Major Albert Warner for Gold Diggers of 1933, would have sounded more sincere if Warner Brothers' current cinemusicomedy had been a less obvious copy of their earlier one. The casts-Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks-are similar...