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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means if you have a friend with a ticket, borrow it; if you can't, try and get one at the box office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...applications will be limited to four sets, not including box seats, and those for "personal use" will be preferred. Box seats, at the side of the rink, $2.20. H. A. A. cupon books can be used, and will be good for $.55 discount on one ticket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. ANNOUNCES RULES FOR COMING CONTESTS | 2/2/1927 | See Source »

Sweet and low, then soaring. What but "Jenny Lind"?the little swede that Barnum made "The Swedish Nightingale." Ah, ah. . . co-lor-a-tur-AH?very nice. The audience stood up and cheered while young Composer Moore bowed from his box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Rhapsody | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...they went to Huyler's confectionery store. Little boys, in Eton collars, went there too, for their lemon drop's and stick candy. Then as the children grew up and migrated, Huyler's stores followed them, to all the important cities east of the Mississippi. A box of Huyler's candies ("A Token of Good Taste") is still the thing to buy, to present. Now David A. Schulte, arch-retailer, owns the stores, having bought them last week from Banker Rudolph S. Hecht of New Orleans and his associates. They, in their turn, had bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Huyler's | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...provided to exalt them still higher. Unfortunately, the play, weighted down by heavy-handed craftsmanship and uninspired poetry, ascends to nothing loftier than pompous platitudinousness. Specimen of the verse: "a magnificent flood of mothers' milk." Sam Abramovitch might as logically have been Hans Schneidewind but for the local box office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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