Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right hand as he entered the hall was V. M. Molotov, who a week before had been "released" as Minister of Foreign Affairs. With Stalin, too, was A. I. Mikoyan who had been released as Minister of Foreign Trade. The three together were cheered. Also present, in a government box off to the side, was the new Foreign Minister, Andrei Vishinsky...
Getting in to a new Broadway hit often takes patience, pleading-or a hefty premium that is many times the price of admission. Tickets disappear first at the box office, then at the large, reputable ticket brokers (who, unlike many of their smaller, shadier colleagues, charge no more than the top legal fee of 75? a ticket). But for those who want seats badly enough, especially in the first ten rows, there is a booming black market...
...box office in 22 U.S. cities found these films leading the pack during February, according to Variety...
...instance Messrs. Edward French and J. Walter Coffee abided scrupulously by the rules, they inadvertently set up two of Yale's three scores. At about 7:30 of the second period, Jack Carman was banished to the penalty box on the rarely called infraction of board checking. Seconds later he was joined by Lew Preston on a similar charge. Two men to the good, Yale's first line put tremendous pressure on goalie Yetman and scored twice to go ahead...
...last six novels, from The Late George Apley to B.F.'s Daughter, have sold 2,600,000 copies. Three of them were book-club choices (H.M. Pulham, Esquire and So Little Time, Book-of-the-Month; B.F.'s Daughter, Literary Guild) ; three of them made box-office movies. Whatever the critics may say about Point of No Return (Marquand says, "I take a dim view of all serious critics-I don't know any who've had a kind word to say for me, ever since I was a little boy"), it is a sure...