Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the show opened. There were other anthem troubles. Official anthem of the Irish Free State is a ballad entitled "The Soldier's Song," always played when the Governor General, King George's representative, enters the ring. Just before His Excellency Governor General James McNeill entered his box, Frank Aiken, Minister of Defense in President de Valera's Republican cabinet, issued orders to the army band not to play. Governor McNeill teetered nervously on the threshold, but an imported British ensemble known as St. Hilda's Band saved the day. Shouldering their tubas, dragging the bass...
...Norfolk, Va. Ledger-Dispatch appeared this advertisement: "Anyone interested in adopting a baby at birth around October ist. write Box 497, care Ledger-Dispatch...
...could revolve only around a fanatic vortexed in Paris last week around Dr. Paul Gorgulov who was caught red-handed assassinating the President of the Republic, Paul Doumer (TIME, May 16). The strange proceedings so fascinated a group of young French lawyers that they stealthily occupied the press box one day when it was vacant, tried to hold it against the furious assaults of newshawks, had to be ousted by the police...
White Zombie (United Artists) is the latest jitter & gooseflesh cinema. Dracula was the first of the current witches' Sabbath of horror pictures (TIME, Feb. 23, 1931), followed by Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue and Freaks. All have been box office successes...
...crowd of 10,000 filled Roland Garros Stadium so full that when Dwight Filley Davis, U. S. doubles champion (with Holcombe Ward) in 1899-1901. who put up the Davis Cup in 1900, arrived there was no place for him to sit. Instead of being taken to the box occupied by President Albert Lebrun, Mr. Davis vas allowed to sit in a stand reserved for superfluous officials. Irked, he went home after one match...