Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...congratulate you and hope you will keep up the good work," said Mr. Coolidge to Walter Johnson, pitcher, handing from the Presidential box at the Washington baseball field a diploma certifying that the sport writers of the eight American League cities had chosen Johnson as the most valuable player in the American League last season...
Next day, the Augusteo Amphitheatre was crowded with bemedaled Black Shirts who had arrived from all parts of Italy to attend this year's National Congress of Fascisti. In the Royal Box sat Mussolini gazing down upon the multitude with the air of a Caesar. On the stage was Deputy de Vecchi urging complete "Fascistization" of the State: "Our efforts will not be relaxed," he said, "until ultimate victory. Our chief cannot be touched without passing over our dead bodies"-the finishing touch which caused an uproarious rendition of the inevitable Fascist hymn, Giovinezza...
...long after her appearance in Spain, she had, perforce, to sit in the royal box in the great bullfighting arena at Madrid. Pale and sick at heart, she watched the bull charge into the ring, watched the matadors and the toreadors approach. That much the Spanish people could force her to do, but they could not make her keep her eyes open; and throughout the whole nauseating, raucous performance, her eyes avoided the cruel slaughter...
...Guardsman where, in an opera box, husband and wife make clandestine love...
...Government forbade alien Communists from entering the country to attend, but, like jacks-in-the-box, two foreign Communists suddenly appeared, addressed the conference. They were Dr. Z. Stocker of Berlin, Mile. Marcelle Lebel of France. Long and loud did the Communists guffaw at the impotency of the Capitalistic Government...