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Word: boxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reserved seats for the occasion are on sale at the box office at prices ranging from $50 upwards

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RACE INTERMIXTURE TOPIC OF LIBERAL CLUB DEBATE | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...Harry M. Blackmer, board chairman of the Midwest Refining Co. (subsidiary of Standard of Indiana). Mr. Blackmer skipped the country, too, and has repeatedly refused to return and testify. His share of the Continental profits were located last week in a Manhattan safety deposit box. His son, Myron K. Blackmer, testified that Harry M. Blackmer will not soon return to the U. S. from Paris. "He told me he liked it there," said Son Blackmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: CORRUPTION | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...float, entitled "The Gods of Our Ancestors," moved into view and its commander threw Mayor Walker a ten-pound box of candy, which almost bowled him over. He grinned happily and said: "Don't throw any watermelons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Again, Walker | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...spends 20 million dollars for music each year. His budget allots six millions to the 13 major symphony orchestras, three and a half millions to the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies, the rest to individual artists, summer concert orchestras, a few minor opera companies. Grade A box-office attractions, according to Manager Engles, are Pianists Paderewski, Hofmann, Rachmaninoff; Violinists Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, Yehudi Menuhin; Singers Schumann-Heink, Garden, Farrar, Jeritza, Galli-Curci, Taliey, Ponselle, McCormack, Chaliapin, Gigli, Schipa. Their gross receipts amount to some three millions a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big Figures | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...cigar box and saturated cotton with a teacupful of chloroform and put that in there with him, and then placed a pound weight on the box lid. The next morning Mr. Toad was gone. He had pulled a Houdini during the night and disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horned Toad | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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