Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With two players in the penalty box Harvard's hockey forces weathered the fierce closing drive of the University Club sextet and captured a 2 to 1 victory over the former college stars in the Boston Garden last night. Brilliant as well as drab brands of play were exhibited as the Crimson skaters chalked up their second win over the Clubmen and their fifth of the season...
...Christmas time mean acts seem exceptionally vicious. In Manhattan one William Heimsberger sold all the Christmas presents of his five children and bought liquor. In Washington some one sent to a young bride a Christmas box which exploded, killing the girl and her baby brother...
...unsportsmanlike not to risk injury by the ball which can break noses, fracture bones. The Chicago stands are protected. Sometimes the players, running for a hard get and unable to stop, climb up the wire nets like monkeys. Sometimes a fast-running foot goes through a net, annoys box-holding spectators. Unlike players in Havana. those in Chicago are all young: the oldest is 23, the youngest 17. Besides sleeping all in one room, they eat together, go to the theatre together twice a week, jabber constantly in their native tongues, seldom consort with other than their fellow jai alai...
...from Belgium a canvas by Sir Anthony Van Dyck which he intended to buy for $100,000. The picture, called Concert des Anges, shows a life-size Madonna and Child surrounded by buxom angels. When the packing case arrived in London the express company told Dealer Phillips that the box had arrived in damaged condition. Said he: "Never mind about the case; is the picture all right...
...that is changed. With a keen eye on the ever abiding equation of supply and demand the magnates have chosen the monopolists of the box-office as the first scapegoat of 1930. The amusing foibles of the price war in Gotham are merely a concession to adverse business conditions. As a result of the new sliding scale the gallery gods may now descend to the dignity of the pit. The Glorified Girl is at last priced as an economic necessity...