Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Citizen Roosevelt should have gone to bed early on the night before he became President. His mother and children were at a National Symphony Orchestra concert. First number played after the intermission was "On the Prairie," by Composer William H. Woodin. Mr. & Mrs. Woodin had a box and invited guests to hear it, but when the number was played, Mr. Woodin was not there. He was at the Mayflower Hotel along with Secretary of State-to-be Hull, and Texan Jesse Jones of the R. F. C. conferring with Citizen Roosevelt. Worry, worry-what to do about the banks...
...Power for the Secretary to allow the establishment by banks of trust accounts ("cash box" deposits...
...Colton, 27, circled in an open cockpit biplane. In line of duty he was taking notes on the height and thickness of cloud layers, ice forming conditions, the direction and violence of the wind (80 m.p.h. that morning). His chief work was being done inside a little streamlined box strung on rubber cords between the outer struts of his right wing. In it, human hairs squeezed of oil and moisture were taking in the atmosphere's moisture; a vacuum box was taking its pressure; a bimetallic strip contracting at two different rates in the 4°-below-zero cold...
...singers sang for him. Oldtime Metropolitan stars returned to the stage to honor him.* Swayed by the wholehearted sentiment which opera-folk thrive on, the house fairly shook with shouts when the Metropolitan ballet shaped itself into a giant birthday cake, held up 25 candles. From his grandtier box Mr. Gatti gravely gave the Italian salute but no amount of persuasion would bring him to the stage from which he took his last bow in 1908, standing between Conductor Arturo Toscanini and Tenor Enrico Caruso...
...cinemas next to bad colds and underneath sneezes. I left warm rooms to go to the pillar box and post letters without a coat. Exactly where I caught it, of course I can't tell. ... I crawled home...