Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.I.s, all bashful smiles and no French, arrived. Picasso let them have a look around his studio, then tried to make them understand that he was busy. They still made no move to leave. So, said Picasso, "I gave them a toy I had on my table ... a little box with a glass top and inside a few tiny balls that you keep rolling around until they drop in their sockets to make a pattern. ... I went on with my work. All afternoon the soldiers huddled together on three stools, playing with that little boy's game. When...
...apparent inability to straighten out his star pitcher, Bill Voiselle, who be gan by winning eight straight and then lost six in a row, is a case in point. After being twice knocked out of the box, Voiselle was leading the Cardinals 3-to-1, with two out in the ninth, when a 53-minute rain interrupted proceedings. Instead of putting in a game-saver for the thoroughly cooled-out Voiselle, Ott left him in, and the Cardinals won the game. Afterwards, Ott fined Voiselle $500 for not wasting an out side pitch after getting a 2-0 count...
When Ott, in desperation, rescinded the fine last week, Voiselle responded by being knocked out of the box the first inning...
Broadway put on a good show in the 1944-45 season just ended. There were no overwhelming moments or historic scenes, but there were pretty ones and witty ones, charming and disarming ones, and a few that were vivid and exciting. At the box office, despite slightly higher prices and curfews, 24 out of 85 shows made good-a well-above-average showing...
...subjects . . . and through an analysis of multiple readings on two ... it appears that attending motion picture shows . . . is by no means relaxation in the physiological sense. . . . It remains to be seen whether the collective change in the body temperature of a preview audience can be used to predict the box-office success of a film...