Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necked and it had short sleeves?since she does not approve of decollete. Mr. Dawes was in high spirits during the hour that they remained. Most of the Governors and members of the Cabinet were there. Mr. Hughes received a great ovation when his face was observed in a box. The floor was flooded to the scuppers with dancers. Music and revelry?the close of an illustrious...
Giovanni Martinelli, famed tenor, last week returned to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, after having been absent, ill with typhoid, for almost three months. When he, as Canio in Pagliacci, drove on the stage in the prescribed donkey-cart, standees, gallery-devils, box-holders interrupted the orchestra to applaud; in a convenient pause, the musicians themselves laid down their flutes, their fiddles, applauded with the audience; when he finished singing the famed aria Vesti la giubba the ovation was taken up again, lasted for five minutes. Martinelli, bowing and bowing, shed tears of gratitude...
Pitching candidates have showed up well in the past week. Besides Captain Pond, Scott, Ashburn and Ross, who occupied the box last season, two former Freshman stars are showing great strength. Moran, of the 1927 nine, under the tutelage of Coach Wood, has done some of the most effective work this year. Holabird, 1926 pitcher, who was not in college last year, is even better...
...dawned upon Holden and upon Harvard in 1783, when the first professional school came into being. For thirty years the Medical School held its meetings in Holden Chapel. Harvard had new become a university! There was a time when that little box of a building housed the Medical School, the Chemistry and Physics Laboratories, such as they were, and four recitation rooms, one for each of the college classes. This was Holden in its heyday of which Edward Everett wrote "the Chapel was Holden" the entire university." But as new buildings were added Holden sank once more into obscurity...
...said Eddie Cantor, "the night before the Yale game, when the Harvard team was waiting anxiously in New Haven, I ate supper with them and tried to entertain them. They were amused and I was pleased. I told them that if they beat Yale they might have every box in the house. After they won they came down to New York. George Owen and the whole team ran down the aisles and into the boxes while one man kicked a football onto the stage. Between the acts they presented me with a gold football...