Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lago di Garda. According to latest reports they still spend the first four days waiting to be received in sumptuous comfort, find their closets full of the most expensive and entrancing lingerie, receive every two or three hours a present carried in by a servant, such as a ring, box of chocolates, flowers, a book. Instead of an orgy, however, the big night when it finally comes now consists in listening to the Poet-Prince talk with vivid force and imagery about politics, poetry, religion and LOVE until about 7 the next morning, when his guest staggers...
...alterations in detail are as follows: The kitchen has been electrified. A new refrigerator has been put in place of the old ice box, and a new larger stove has been installed. The stockroom has also been changed around to be of more easy access to the kitchen...
...Pictures Corp. was on bankruptcy's brink, "Uncle Carl" Laemmle sold it to a group of Manhattan bankers headed by John Cheever Cowdin, who knew as much about the cinema as "Uncle Carl" knew about banking. But their first production, Three Smart Girls (TIME, Dec. 21), was a box-ofifice hit, introducing Deanna Durbin, most promising cinema songstress in years. Last week in her second picture, her first starring role, Songstress Durbin underlined the fact that in her Universal had found its most valuable property and an A-1 box-office attraction...
...incognito the simple pleasures of the poor. At the Prater, he spends an idyllic evening at the Punch-&-Judy show, throwing hoops round the necks of swans. Ordered next night to a command performance of the opera, he sees his dreamgirl, a shy debutante, take her mother's box for the first time. By secret assignations they share many a trystful profile, give U. S. audiences ample reason to applaud Danielle Darrieux's Dresden-china features. The young Baroness' mother hears of the affair, packs the girl off to forgetfulness in Trieste, where she pines...
Smiling like the secretive Cheshire cat, the tall, dark and handsome medical director of the American Birth Control League, Dr. Eric M. Matsner, arrived in Manhattan from London last week. In his mind was a new method of rendering women infertile for several weeks at a time. In a box which he carried were 18 South African clawed toads...