Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have simmered and boiled in Manhattan all season. Many have thought that Radio City offered the logical cure. A new Metropolitan would be built there in another two years, they prophesied. But the Metropolitan appears to be of a different mind. The property belongs to 35 conservative parterre-box-holders who are unwilling to sell out at Depression prices and unwilling, many of them, to let Metropolitan traditions be swallowed up in John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s new commercialized enterprise. Radio City officials, tired of the Met's indecision, let it be known lately that opera of some description would...
...list to which cinemanufacturers may have paid closer heed was compiled by Variety of the six pictures which drew the largest gross box office profits in 1931. Alphabetically, the six were...
...visit of courtesy and friendship" to Soviet Russia, was entertained by his hosts at the trotting races in the Moscow hippodrome. Surrounded by fur-hatted Russian officers and highest diplomats, the so-called "brains of the Persian State" sat protected from the bitter cold in a glass-sided box while the rubber-tired sulkies skimmed around the track in the light of electroliers and a crescent moon. At Timoor Tash's side, talking of "Asia for the Asiatics," sat General Budenny who, like the Grand Vizier's own sovereign, was once a Cossack sergeant...
When the porter who opens packages addressed to Assistant Secretary of Commerce Julius Klein found a heavy wooden box he was wisely suspicious and promptly summoned building guards. The guards called police. The police suggested the Bureau of Standards and the Bureau of Standards referred them to the Bureau of Mines. The Bureau of Mines thought the bomb should be opened at the Naval Research Laboratory. At the laboratory a squad of marines fired several rifle bullets into the box. Then an expert, working with mirrors and long implements from behind an iron shield, pried the lid open. They found...
...occasions he has financed himself and stared down from the rafters at such a distance that personal criticism is rendered impossible. He had always wanted to see what happened down below there and at last after six years of waiting he was asked by friends to sit in a box...