Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grew even in exile. His operas crept back into the repertoire one by one until Lohengrin had arrived, Tannhäuser, Tristan, Meister singer, the four Ring operas-Rheingold, Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung-and the valedictory Parsifal. Today enthusiasm has reached the pitch where box-office plenty is direct sequel to the announcement of special Wagner matinees...
...rage, sorrow, and financial loss of his owner. Someone else fixed a beady and covetous eye on Warily Gang Leader, champion wire-haired fox terrier, kennel mate and spouse to parexcellent Talavera Margaret. While the dog was being shown by her owner, this individual crept to the box wherein Warily Gang Leader was chained, before which a sentry should have been posted. Presumably, then, he put Warily Gang Leader warily under his coat, deposited him in a sack, then put the sack in a truck leaving a back entrance of Madison Square Garden, to avoid porters instructed...
...box lists must be in the hands of R. A. Stout '29, 6 Westmorly Court, by tomorrow night to be considered. The assignment of boxes has already begun, and the complete plan will be published the middle of next week. All men who have not made arrangements for a group will, with their guests, be arbitrarily assigned to boxes by the Committee...
...runaway girl from Little Rock, Ark., who slipped overnight from the ranks of a Ziegfeld chorus to the bosom of grand opera. They repeated it again last week for Grace Moore, onetime musical comedy star, of Hitchy-Koo, Up in the Clouds, of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue...
...last it became apparent who the man was. The audience cheered and clapped when a little white-haired clergyman, looking for all the world like a sly puppy, gave an uncertain, embarrassed smile, got up from his chair, tiptoed toward the centre of the stage, and took the ivory box. The little clergyman was the Rev. Dr. William Herbert Burk. He had been awarded the Bok Prize for founding and forwarding the Washington Memorial at Valley Forge...