Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inventions. Few months ago they acquired Screen Book, disposed of by the Mackinnon-Fly Publications. They cut its price from 25? to 10?, boosted its circulation from 100,000 to 300,000. Next year they will offer Mechanical Package Magazine, each copy of which will be delivered in a box containing also the parts of some mechanical gadget to be assembled by the reader according to instructions in the magazine...
...music of any deep emotional content. Choruses had momentum but little real vitality. The love music was pallid and unaffecting compared with L'Amore, where Fiora forgets even the stalking blind king who she knows is coming to kill her. In a box last week sat Mary Garden, greatest of Fioras, with Signora Montemezzi, whose husband would appear more & more to be a one-opera composer...
Using the stage as a soap box, Playwright Toller now harangues through the character of Egon Hinkemann (Maurice Schwartz). Before he marched off to fight for the Fatherland, Egon was a strapping fellow with a beautiful wife (Helen MacKellar). He returns from the fray an emasculated wreck, "no man at all." To make a living he astonishes side show crowds by biting the heads off guinea pigs. "They want blood!" says his manager. They...
...president of Baltimore & Ohio, personal legal adviser to the late Railroad Builder James Jerome Hill; after long illness; in Washington. For 32 years his parentage was unknown to him. His mother took him to Cincinnati at the age of five, then disappeared. He lived in a drygoods box with another urchin, sold newspapers, blacked boots. Placed in an orphanage, he escaped in 1865 and by selling "extras" telling of Lincoln's assassination accumulated $4.50, went to Toledo to look for his mother. His impression that she had brought him from Toledo to Cincinnati was verified in 1890, when...
Winterhalter started long at the graceful bevy of women, and then reluctantly turned back to the canvas before him. Haussman cut great swaths through the Hutter of Parisian slums. A man called Offenbach sat back in his box watching he world dance to his thinking melolics. Some where off in a back room a cynic with a long nose was muttering, We dance, but we dance upon a volcano. In such fashion did the Second Empire sweep through...