Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was how the jury, 30 minutes out of its box in the Honolulu courtroom, stood on its first ballot. Of the five Americans, three Chinese, a Dane, a German, a Portuguese and a Hawaiian, only a minority were for convicting Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N., Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, his mother-in-law, and Seamen Lord and Jones for the second-degree murder of Joseph Kahahawai Jr. After that, locked in around the long table with Foreman John Stone at its head, the jurors settled down to harangue one another on Hawaii's most sensational case...
...wanted to make Sutler's Gold. . They preached box-office to me ... Nice elderly ladies said Mrs. Sutter should be pictured as a nicer character. . . . And the Daughters of Something-or-Other got interested and raised a row. ... A Major Pease and his Blue Shirts said I was a 'Red Dog.' . . . And the producers complained that I didn't seem to get sex appeal. . . . And the race question entered into my difficulties, too, and I don't mean the Negro race...
Harvard needs a theatre, not dependent on the box office, where dramatic art can be studied first hand and as a whole. This theatre should not be limited to the production of new plays or to those oddities which have been outside the scope of Broadway. In this new theatre the great plays of every age, the Greek tragedies, the French classics, the Elizabethan drama, should find modern expression...
...grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Among the 1,000 spectators was Bridge Expert Sidney Lenz, President of the American Ping-Pong Association, who 30 years ago introduced the full-hand grip, now used by almost all ping-pong players. Happily watching the matches from a lavish box was George Swinnerton Parker of Boston, decorated by a white goatee and a pique evening waistcoat. He had donated the Parker cup, to be engraved with the name of the champion. Mr. Par ker helped invent ping-pong. His firm, Parker Brothers, controls the U. S. rights to ping-pong...
...with humor sounded by piccolos and the xylophone. Large, amiable Mrs. Stock once gave a homely word-portrait of the Stock who likes to build furniture, tinker with electricity. After a particularly strenuous piece of conducting, when he was effusively mopping his brow, she leaned over to the next box, said: "Oh, my poor Frederick, he sweats...