Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a Prussian Deputy tried to fly his country's flag. Berlin police made him take it down. The Deputy's country-the German Republic-was dying if not dead. Meanwhile out of the ballot box another Germany was being reborn. Its flag- black, white & red-the onetime Imperial Hohenzollern colors, flew in every street, floated majestically from Government buildings and was flaunted everywhere by shouting, cheering throngs. Goosestepping as smartly as when they were members of Germany's Imperial Army, and with several Hohenzollern Princes in their ranks, 20,000 Stahlhelmers paraded down Unter den Linden...
...corridors of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week. Singers backstage talked of little else. Board members held consultations over it. Newspapers gave front-page headlines to Augustus D. Juilliard, the name of the rich old, man who used to sit quietly and attentively listening to opera from Box...
...president of the Metropolitan boxowners. He had grown up in Stark County, Ohio, migrated to Manhattan, made a fortune in textiles which toward the end of his life interested him far less than the opera. He went to nearly every performance. He was in his box the night he became fatally ill. In his will he left $14,000,000 to create a Juilliard Musical Foundation which should supply funds for a school of music and give help, at the discretion of the trustees, to the Metropolitan. The Juilliard School of Music has thrived on its fat capital. Under President...
Italy. In a box at his first concert were his ample, domestic wife and pretty daughter Wanda, who on request often gets out a tiny mustache and does uproarious imitations of her famed father. On the stage at intermission a lanky outsider shared bows with Toscanini. The guest was Composer Howard Hanson, down from Rochester to hear his Romantic Symphony played by Toscanini for the first time...
...Cash Box Deposits. Most important innovation in banking technique was the plan, adopted in Ohio and several other states, of freezing 90% to 99%, of deposits and allowing each depositor to draw on his account from 1% to 10% of his balance (generally 5%). This 5% was kept in actual currency in the banks' vaults and known as cash box deposits similar to the plan for trust deposits outlined in President Roosevelt's proclamation. Any new deposits made were credited to this cash box deposit (in the case of checks, when & if the banks actually collected them...