Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congressmen of both Houses want to adjourn comparatively soon. All of the Representatives and more than one-third of the Senators are face to face with a Sphinxlike ballot box. There is a public buildings bill, a bill for increasing the pay of Federal judges, a bill for disposing of Muscle Shoals, bills for future handling of railroad and coal strikes, the French debt settlement, and above all farm relief?all clamoring for consideration. A first-rate legislative jam seems in the making, with the probability that many of these measures will not pass. And although Congressmen are eager...
...Tell" Rossini Spring Song Mendelssohn Fantasia from "Madam Butterfly" Puccini Suite from "Carnaval" Schumann-Jacchia a. Preamble b. Pierrot c. Chopin d. Reconnaisance e. Sphinxes Trombone Quartet Scherzo, "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" Rimsky-Korsakov Tenth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Prelude to the "Mastersingers of Nuremberg" Wagner The Music Box Liadov Waltz, "1001 Nights" Strauss...
...Cabinet, although he did not indulge. Harding used cigarets (occasionally a pipe), passed cigarets to his ministers, but cigar smokers had to bring their own to Cabinet. Now President Coolidge likes domestic cigars. During the Cabinet sessions (Tuesdays and Fridays) there is on the long table a big box provided by the President. Hospitality fails only in this-any Cabinet member who thinks of domestic cigars as worse than tarred hemp is still obliged to bring his own Havana...
...opening week at the Empire, Meller attracted in four performances $26,800. This is considerably more than even the most spectacular show in town could make in four exhibitions (Sunny grosses about $43,500 for eight performances). Her second week brought $26,500 in box office receipts. Following her Manhattan engagement she will give one, sometimes two performances in Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Detroit, Cleveland, Kansas City, St. Louis, Cincinnati, San Francisco and Los Angeles...
...audiences that attend the Friday concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra are famous for their nonchalance. Lovers of music who have visited Philadelphia recount with indignation how rudely the people drift in, in casual ones and twos and in large box parties, always late?sometimes so late that when the curtain rises most of the seats are vacant. The Philadelphians, however, are rarely late for their teas. If the concert is long, they rise and leave, bowing to their friends and murmuring goodbyes, and hurry away to scones and cinnamon toast and caroling kettles, leaving the music to make its swanlike...