Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pillared magnificence of the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires. . . . an interior bepeopled, bejeweled. On stage: Beniamino Gigli, Metropolitan tenor; Claudia Muzio, Chicago soprano. . . The music by Catalan! (Loreley). . . In the box with President and Mme. de Alvear, a pleasant Prince. For a further account of the season at the Teatro Colon, see Music, Page...
...purrs with the opulent Panhards, Renaults, Minervas of opera bound millionaires. The antithetically poor move slower, but in the same direction, stopping at dingy cigarrerias for fat pendulous cigars. From the Loterias, orthodox and legal vendors of chance, stream the fortunate, to cash their winnings, for a stall, a box, in La Colon...
Last week his chance came. He had sold all his property and belongings. He had also sent his spouse to relatives for a vacation. Came a day when all the village was busy harvesting; Moujik Grachev felt in his trousers pocket, extracted a box of matches, toyed with it nervously, then flitted about the village setting fire to the houses. Back scampered the village population. Grachev welcomed them by firing a shotgun at them. Seventeen people dropped dead, many others groaned from their wounds, 13 of the village's 14 houses were burned to the ground. Grachev fled...
...decision. On paper the duties of the Commission are simple enough. The matter is essentially mathematical, and mathematics is an exact science. Production costs at home and abroad having been ascertained by the Commission's experts; comparability becomes a matter of cold statistics, leaving small room for soap-box oratory or division of opinion. Unfortunately, the matter is not so simple. The factors in the equation are undetermined variables rather than constants. . . . Every case bristles with controversial points. It so happens that the more conscience and intelligence a man puts into an examination of these questions, the less likely...
...box a yard wide, weighing eight pounds, containing a steel comb which is picked by minute pincers when notes are struck on the keyboard above-such is the Pichetone-instrument which Inventor S. Giley of Moscow declares will supplant the piano. Russian musicians assert that it has a tone superior to that of the ordinary pianoforte...