Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deserted edifice while in the new one-too big to be exclusive-quality rubbed shoulders with people who were merely rich. Again Mr. Kahn came to the fore. He persuaded the real estate company to let his producing company rest the decision with the present holders of parterre boxes. To these he said: "Let there be compiled, by the 121 present box-holders, a list of 150 prospective box-holders who are eligible." The split was healed. The vote went through. The vision stands...
...cold she caught yesterday morning when arriving in Boston she was confined to her bed by doctor's orders and was surrounded by a mountainous mass of blankets, counterpanes and pillows. A little pomeranian was playing just out of arm's reach with the paper wrapping around a huge box of candy which had evidently been sent by an admirer. At Miss Van Gordon's request the reporter placed the dog on the floor and then asked whether the star liked to play in Wagnerian roles...
...electric bulbs outside Promoter Tex Rickard's vast new sport arena in Manhattan blazoned a great name. Dapper dandies called up shingled dames and told them. Mayor Walker promised to occupy a ringside box. Ancient hooligans of the Roaring Forties cadged the entrance fee. Gorgeous Georges Carpentier motored over from his hotel. The bulbs were flaring forth: "Fitzsimmons...
Colonial--"Music Box Review" on February...
Physiologists and physicians made no mockery of a new announcement last week by one Joe H. Pos, civil engineer of Portland, Ore., graduate of the University of Zurich. He said he had constructed an "electric-radio" machine, that regulated blood pressure, whether high or low and he exhibited a box, like a radio receiving-set, of bulbs, coils, condensers, arms, doohickies, thingumbobs, gadgets, gimcracks. On top of the case are two brass arms, one of which constructor Pos points at the back of the patient's head, the other at his stomach-that is, at the medulla...