Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomatic box, Russian Minister Ilya Chernichev's face registered surprise, then realization, then smiling relief...
Sinclair Lewis, whose last try at movie writing was an anti-fascist horse opera (junked as "bad box office"), was back for another try-this time a satire on Adam & Eve. Two days after he hit Hollywood, Babbitt's aging creator: 1) went to a big party at Gossipist Hedda Hopper's, 2) talked like a native. "The movies are no more commercial," declared Lewis, "than any other form of art. . . . There's no reason to suppose that a poor man starving in a garret writes better than a rich man living in a mansion. . . . Human beings...
...barrage of verbal tomatoes, cabbages, and assorted fruit that hit the fan following the final curtain of "I Was a King in Babylon" was received with unusual graciousness and good spirit by the Veterans Theatre Workshop. "Shamelessly and unabashedly" confessing that activity around the box-office is a necessity for continued life, the Workshop --pessimistically prophesying, at the same time, that even "the best production of the finest classic would see the same Harvard student body staying away in droves"--is frankly asking the dinner crowd at House dining halls to choose their next production...
...last week when the fishing weather was fine. While the fleet's 30 schooners, trawlers and draggers lay at the docks, the walkout had spread from deep-sea crewmen (500 strong) to hundreds of sympathizing inshore fishermen. Soon it would force the closing of processing plants and fish-box factories, thus shut down the province's entire fishing industry...
...half used checkbook also showed the stubs of checks made out for a "World's Series Box," and large sums paid out to the Club 100 and The Ritz, St. Regis, and Sherry-Netherland Hotels in New York City...