Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is no doubt that Mr. Pinchot has not finished with prohibition as an issue. Governor Pat Neff of Texas is a Democrat and a resounding Dry. Mr. Pinchot had expressed admiration of the Texan's broad-brimmed hat. Last week a box reached the capital of Pennsylvania bearing the selfsame hat as a present. Governor Pinchot clapped it on his head, remarking: " My kind of a Republican can wear the hat of his kind of a Democrat...
...speech was made last May at the unveiling of a monument of Alex- ander Hamilton at the south end of the Treasury Building. Last week Mr. Mellon attended a ball given in Washington by the Investment Bankers' Association. Persistent demands brought him from retirement and the rear of his box to speak?barely a mouthful of words...
Obviously this new Stage Guild in Boston cannot do its job unless the desired public seeks the Peabody Playhouse even at a little inconvenience and, one by one, lays its dollar on the sill of the box-office. (For so modest and considerate is the price.) As obviously, the Guild cannot depend upon the ordinary playgoing public hereabouts. Otherwise, "regular" theatres would be housing "Ambush" and "March Hares" Little interested in so serious, sane, unselfish an undertaking are the highbrows by trademark. Encouragement in word, support in deed, must come from that younger public which would take its pleasure...
...determine the order, by classes, in which the applications of graduates of both the College and the graduate schools will be filled. By this system, a slip bearing the year of each college class whose members have applied for tickets to the Princeton game is placed in a large box. The oldest class in the draw was that of 1852, the youngest, ex-members of 1924. In the draw the slips were pulled out at random, and the graduate applications will be filled by class in that order...
...said the Senator, "with the situation now existing in Congress it is certain that any attempt to change tax laws would open a veritable Pandora's box of troubles." In this Representative Green of Iowa, who is to be Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, agrees...