Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy, sardonic humor, was in his best form last week as constituents of the Stalin district of Moscow jampacked a large theatre. They looked for Candidate Stalin. He was not on the platform, packed with lesser Bolsheviks. He was hidden in the depths of one of the boxes. Finally he left his box, suddenly appeared on the stage. The house went wild...
...thing no dictator can do is control the weather. Another thing no dictator can do is make cinemaddicts prefer one movie star to another. Hollywood's dictator, the box office, realistically recognizes this fact, always bows to the unpredictable will of the people. Last week a nationwide poll on the comparative popularity of current cinema stars showed Hollywood which way to bow. The one-day poll was conducted by 53 newspapers of the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate (combined circulation approximately 20,000,000) in the U. S. and Canada. Results (male and female separately...
...Manhattan apartment Thorndike kept his hens and four monkeys. He invented for his experiments the maze and puzzle box, now standard equipment for psychological work. At 24 Thorndike published his first work, Animal Intelligence. Armchair psychologists, who had not his patience for the laborious pursuit of facts, immediately denounced his conclusions. To them the youngster replied: "What is important is concrete information about particular facts...
...supporting even a Wagnerian soprano without creaking. Last season's major Wagnerian discovery, svelte Swedish Kerstin Thorborg, again drew critical superlatives for her performance as the vacillating Brangane. Youthful American Julius Huehn again donned whiskers, impersonated the aging, battle-scarred Kurvenal. Emanuel List was the oratorical Mark. The box office, which had sold out the house one hour after opening its seat sale a week before, grossed an estimated...
...Mayor LaGuardia, Polish Ambassador Count Jerzy Potocki, ubiquitous Manhattanites like Novelist Fannie Hurst, scads of musicians, among them Conductor Artur Rodzinski, Pianist Leopold Godowsky, Violinist Albert Spalding. There were 20 oldsters, including kindly Dr. Walter Damrosch, who had heard the Hofmann debut concert, 50 years before. In a box sat Pianist Hofmann's daughter and granddaughter by his first wife, and his comely young second wife-whom he had married in 1924, amazingly managing to keep it a secret for four years- and their two oldest sons. (The baby, ten months old, seemed too young to bring along...