Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the play was finally ready, it drew an astounding amount of attention for a drama to be produced entirely in the classical Greek. Speculators offered as much as 625 for a ticket to the closing performance of the play. The box office line formed 18 hours before the first tickets were to be placed on sale. There was, moreover, an unusually distinguished first night audience which included, besides editors, high court officials, and educators too numerous to mention, Longfellow, Emerson, Holmes, Curtis, and Howell...
...very careless with mail. I have failed to receive quite a number of copies of TIME and have gone to the office several times to get my mail and found transient guests, lounge lizards, and lobby loiterers reading my paper, which they had helped themselves to out of my box in the absence of the clerk. Newark must be a temporary stopping off place for the latter class of humans, resting presumably before touring the State of New Jersey, where "Graft" seems to run wild...
...Weighed carefully a startling prediction made in pungent fashion last week by famed Conservative Editor James Louis Garvin of the Observer,* who wrote ominously of Premier Stanley Baldwin's Conservative Cabinet: "The Diehards? have jumped on the box seat of the Conservative coach and are whipping the team to the devil. The Cabinet's introduction of the trade union bill [TIME, Feb. 21, 28] which proposes to make a sympathetic strike illegal, virtually forbids picketing and isolates the civil service from the general labor movement, is the act of a Government riding for a fall...
Pittsburgh officials, frightened at the appearance of rabies in their district, have devised an efficient method of killing stray dogs. Three motorized wagons patrol the streets. Each wagon has an air-tight box into which the poisonous exhaust gases of the motor enter. Whenever the dog-catcher on the driver's seat sights an unmuzzled dog unattended by a human, he tries to snare it. If he does catch the dog, he heaves it into the suffocating box and soon the live dog is a dead...
...impresario, rides to glory. Recently a reporter on the theatrical weekly, Variety, he took to producing comedies with scant success, turned later to melodrama, offered Broadway, now lolls in plush. His second venture this season, Spread Eagle, another melodrama, cannot fail to make the audience wilt with excitement, the box office swell with receipts...