Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admission. Standing room soared to $25. Mounted police handled the crowds outside. Within the old red and gold auditorium, humped in an inconspicuous seat, waited General Manager Gatti-Casazza. sphinxlike, beard sunk deep on his chest, pondering the ways of music in the U. S. Up in his box, sleek, important, pleased, sat the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Otto H. Kahn. And in that over-stuffed audience were heard the boastings of the Mayor and 200 citizens of Kansas City who had paid $50,000 for a special train to carry them there for the great night. Kansas...
...Committee requests that all box and table groups be formed as soon as possible. The complete list of all the occupants should be typewritten and sent to Sexton at 23 Straus Hall. Each Senior is allowed only two tickets, and only Seniors may attend the function...
...them, while the powerful University of Pennsylvania nine secured only a 4 to 1 verdict. In the latter contest, Stribling, who is slated to twirl this afternoon, pitched the first five innings and yielded but one run. In the event that Stribling falters, Beauchamp will be called to the box for mound duty. Zimmerman and Humber, Cadet gardeners, are the most dangerous of the visiting batters...
...exasperated. A prize of $25 goes to the winner while the loser will collect $10 as a consolation prize. Meals and cigarettes will be furnished the men but they will not be allowed to do any reading except that they may peruse the books which are in the Music Box. These however are Victor Talking Machine Company's book. "What we hear in Music", and the "Book of the Opera...
...find himself no longer a record holder. At that hour the most recent marathon of them all, the youngest offspring of a race long the victim of the inbreeding of defectives will commence within earshot of the Square. At present no steps to avert the holding of the Music Box endurance run are reported to have been taken by the board of health, but that may well be explained on the ground that the community physicians are interested merely in the physical well being of their charges...