Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guests ate at small tables in the garden, served from a huge buffet in the Map Room laden with odorous food. As they departed each received a small box of wedding cake...
Furthermore. Prince and Princess set out into New Jersey for commencement at Upsala (Lutheran) College, then to Princeton. Returning to Manhattan, they went directly to the Metropolitan Opera House through a mob of several thousand street-peepers; from the J. P. Morgan box heard a concert by the American Union of Swedish Singers (58 male choruses from 50 U. S. cities), which later was variously acclaimed by the critics...
...list of patronesses for the Senior Spread, to be held in Memorial Hall this year on Monday, June 21, was announced last night. The music for the dance which will last from 9 o'clock until 2, will be furnished by Bert Lowe's 25-piece orchestra. Box groups for the Spread will be announced later...
...hard to have a garden when you live on the tenth floor* of a hotel. Leaning out of the window of her apartment in the Hotel Charlotte (Charlotte, N. C.) a certain Mrs. A. A. Barren propped a heavy green box, filled with earth and flower seeds, on a corner of the ledge before lowering it to a little stone shelf that ran around the building a foot lower down. She reflected on the long way her garden would fall...
First the box would twirl down six stories to the flagpole, then four more to the marquee over the sidewalk. There was a mesh of strong wire over the upper side of the marquee to protect the glass from things that might be dropped out of windows. Yes, the box would probably be broken to bits. It would frighten that woman? in the car in front of the hotel; it would make the traveling salesman** in front of the drugstore jump out of his skin. Slowly, cautiously, Mrs. Barron began to lower the box out of the window...