Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gruff Premier Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau's hard young men, M. Andrè Tardieu, who returned from Washington with thick-rimmed spectacles and a breezy pugnacity which made Frenchmen start calling him "Tardieu I'Américain"-no compliment intended. Last week at Lyon, in a witness box, M. Tardieu testified with what seemed to most Frenchmen like the brutality of an American gangster...
...after the last Tardieu Cabinet fell (TIME, May 16, 1932), Colonel de La Rocque, who had never liked Tardieu I'Americain although willing to take banknotes where he could find them, referred publicly to the fallen Premier as a "political corpse." For this M. Tardieu in the witness box took ample revenge last week, although Colonel de La Rocque was there to shout in court: "This is not true! Tardieu lies...
...suffers tearful agonies if there is a hint that his performance has not been up to his best. One of the consequent duties of faithful, bustling Lawrence Farrell, once his dresser, now his play manager, is to beguile Lunt out of these funks. Farrell bounces in between acts with box-office reports, fanciful tales of extra chairs required in the balcony. Applause is Lunt's meat, disapproval his poison. During Reunion in Vienna in London he was making a curtain speech when some one called "Louder!"' Lunt thought the man said ''Lousy!" and was ready...
Last week in a characteristic anticlimax Larry Kelley had the grippe. The 7,500 hero worshippers who went to Boston's Fenway Park to see him-only a third that many people ordinarily go to see the Shamrocks-were disappointed. Larry Kelley was present, but sitting in a box with a muffler round his neck...
...announcement of a $200,000 athletic endowment fund by President Conant of Harvard has set a precedent that will reverberate on the intercollegiate horizon for some time to come. Designed to free Varsity and intra-mural sports forever from the somewhat hazardous support rendered by the box-office sports the latest addition to the Cambridge institution's bulwark against the taint of professionalism has set her on a pinnacle of amateurism reached by only a few hinterland teachers' colleges...