Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nearly a hundred friends of the great Pole were his guests this opening day. He bought them tickets at the box office price, asking the theatre management only for a dressing room where he might soak his hands in hot water for half an hour before playing. That is his recipe for suppleness...
...demands that President McKinley was making for Cuban autonomy. The people in the city were many of them hostile to the revolution going on in the outlying districts. On a Sunday Captain Sigsbee and the American Consul General attended a bull fight to discover popular sentiment. Soldiers guarded their box. The situation was tense. On the 15th of February, after the Maine had been in port about two weeks, the Spanish authorities asked the Consul General to have the Maine depart, because if she remained disorders might result. The Consul General cabled the information to Washington...
Penniless, he was forced to work his way through college as a dishwasher, waiter, etc. In the intervals of studying 14 hours a day, he became acquainted with a group of delightfully crazy anarchists and socialists, carried the soap-box from which they poured forth extraordinary denunciations of capitalism, marriage, etc., and, later, passed the hat. He was clubbed in a police attack upon a socialist meeting, overworked in the asparagus and hopfields of California and once was forced to act as an interpreter between Salvation Army workers and a group of Mohammedan laborers who " told filthy stories in Pushtu...
...Box 69, Station D, New York...
...formal financial report of the Chicago Opera Company's season just past gives interesting figures. The box office took in $984,207- $68,091 more than its receipts for the year before. The outlay was $1,335,925. Net loss, $351,718. In New York the Metropolitan Opera Company made a handsome profit...