Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small black box rested on a stand. From its top projected a metal rod approximately twelve inches high; from its side projected a horizontal metal ring. Before the box stood a thin, blond Russian, Professor Leo Theremin of State Physical Institute of Leningrad. He placed his right hand near the upright rod; a musical note streamed from the box. He wiggled his right fingers; chords and phrases danced from the box. He moved his left hand towards the horizontal ring; the music roared deeply. He removed his left hand; the music whispered forth...
This was veritable legerdemain and prestidigitation, cried journalists in Berlin and Paris, where Professor Theremin demonstrated his box early last month. And in Manhattan last week where he demonstrated again, newspapermen continued the exclamations...
...Poli's Theatre (see Music, p. 22, for a further account). President Coolidge had been pleased to greet all the singers at the White House earlier in the day. He stayed through their whole performance and complimented Director Vladimir Rosing on how smoothly everything went. The box in which the President sat was that of Mrs. Joseph Leiter, outstanding capital hostess.* After the opera, President and Mrs. Coolidge went home, while Mrs. Leiter welcomed the American Opera Company at a party vivified by her bounteous stores of champagne...
...consist of-you. They'll take you out and they'll lower you down, While men with shovels stand all around; They'll throw in dirt and they'll threw in rocks, And they won't give a damn if they break the box. The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out, They crawl all over your chin and mouth, They invite their friends and their friends' friends too And you look like hell when they're -through-with you. There are long narrative songs...
...Manhattan last week a parterre box at the Metropolitan Opera House bulged with importance. It held all the Homers, husband, son and daughters of Contralto Louise Homer who that afternoon was not Louise Homer at all but Amneris, Egyptian princess in Verdi's Aida. For the Homers it was a memorable afternoon: for Composer Sidney Homer, her partner in music; for Louise Homer Stires,* herself a singer; for Sidney Homer Jr. and his wife; for the twins, Anne Marie and Katharine, 20, and for Hester Makepeace, 16, who could remember years ago being taken by their nurse to watch...