Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly?like the door of a jack-in-the-box?the heavy portal of the Sejm flies open. The Josef-in-the-box stands there, surrounded by his Cabinet. They are in formal dress, ablaze with orders. The Marshal, towering and black-browed, wears only his field uniform, wrinkled, unadorned...
Even then the Marshal does not deign to speak. Sombre, followed by the glittering Cabinet, he strides back into his jack-in-the-box, and the great door whips shut behind...
...Metropolitan Opera House hummed its loudest and busiest. Every half minute, a notable trod down a plush aisle: a social lioness, jewels agleam, stalked her stately way into a well-known box; this distinguished musician, that famed diplomat?they kept the audience craning necks, peering into programs, discussing personalities. The most brilliant gathering of the, year, had assembled to hear the first U. S. opera commissioned by Gatti-Casazza, The King's Henchman. A half-hour before the tall yellow curtains parted, the standees were under full pressure. Many of these people were skeptical. They said: "Gatti is a shrewd...
When A Man Loves (John Barrymore). It would be hard to discover a title that coos more tenderly to the box office or a picture in which an actor gives more generously of his profile and passion. The scenario is said to be related to Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut. At any rate, it resembles Mr. Barrymore's other romantic films in that it gives him the opportunity to wear heroic clothes, kill villains, and outwit King Louis XV. After doing these things many times, he finds himself in a tiny sailboat with Dolores Costello bound...
...been announced that office hours for filing box applications will be hold in Westmorly 26 at the following hours during the coming week: Today, 1-4 o'clock; tomorrow, 2-3 o'clock; Wednesday, 1-2 and 3-4 o'clock; Thursday 2-4 o'clock; Friday 1-2 o'clock...