Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hesitates to describe the new Guild offering at the Hollis. "Wings Over Europe" as an intellectual drama with an all male cast, for there is no surer way of doing one's two cents worth toward keeping the mobs from the box office. It is best to add that intellectual describes only its lasting appeal, though as it reaches you over the footlights the appeal is primarily emotional, and that its womanlessness arises simply because the play is concerned with atomic rather than the usual spermatozoic processes...
This is the first public performance of the University Film Foundation. The performance at Brattle Hall will be at 8.15 o'clock tonight and will be repeated at the Fine Arts Theater in Boston on Saturday. Tickets may be purchased at Herricks and at both box offices...
...Nothing looks worse than a big flask on one side and a sandwich box on the other. Carry one or the other, but not both. . . . Do not strew the paper from your sandwich box all about the countryside...
...long when we decided that we must have a cat and, of course, the best cats hail from our native state. Accordingly, to Vermont we sent for a cat. A tiny tiger kitten arrived not long after we made our desires known. . . . When we took him out of the box . . . the little thing was so sleepy and tired from long hours . . . on the train that he toppled over drowsily and went to sleep at once." The kitten was named Bounder. He enjoyed playing with water (was apt to jump into tubs drawn for the Coolidges if they failed to watch...
...Newark, N. J., the trial of one Henry Binns had been in progress for two hours before anyone noticed that there were 13 jurors in the box...