Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...box car rattled and swayed as the train jerked slowly out of the station, but the big sergeant standing at the open door balanced himself easily in his thick felt boots...
Fannie Anitua, portly Mexican contralto, sang sonorously but not too smoothly at her first Manhattan concert last week. Mexican colors draped a box. Mexican officials attended, especially urged by President Plutarco Elias Calles. Mexican songs won loudest approval...
Reverberations of discontent with the facilities in the press box at the Union have been heard throughout the Yard. Those who have to occupy this balcony perched high over the main floor have felt for a considerable time that the conditions would not bear comparison with those obtaining in the press boxes of the Yale Bowl or the Palmer Stadium. Anyone who has had occasion to use these facilities even once will agree that the ventilation and visibility is far below that in other similar structures...
...fact the Union Press box is unique in its position in regard to the elements. Walled in on three sides and with a wide projecting roof, this enclosure never gets the benefit of the fresh October winds which find their way so easily into the analagous seats atop most Stadia. This inordinate confinement combines with the position directly over the smoking cigarettes of a capacity crowd to make the air hardly fit for use. Aside from the matter of hygiene, the decrease in visibility resultant from this pall makes discernment of the grid-graph a matter of blind chance reason...
...learned stage technique and many rôles. While there she took a holiday at Ischl where the Imperial family spent its summers. The Emperor Franz Josef liked the opera, liked especially Die Fledermaus of Johann Strauss. He went one night when Jeritza was Rosalinda, sat attentive in his box, tapped his foot to the music, clapped loudly when she sang the Czardas. Three times Jeritza curtsied deep and began again. . . . The performance went on. ... Right triumphed over wrong. . . . The old Emperor beckoned an attendant: "Why have they always old, fat singers at the Hofoper? . . ." Soon Jeritza went...