Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...box of Podestá Guido Pesenti sat Respighi's plump, 43-year-old widow. Donna Elsa could scarcely see the stage for tears. When the performance ended, the audience roared its thanks to her, knowing that she had finished her husband's last work when he had to lay it down...
...Claire Dux married Charles Henry Swift. Packer Swift is one of the richest men in Chicago and has helped its Symphony for 30 years. Claire Dux soloed with the Chicago Symphony in 1935. Last week she sang with the Symphony again. While Packer Swift watched anxiously from his box, Dux undertook the Strauss and Mozart she has loved since youth. Though her voice has lost freshness and size, she treated every phase with marvelous control. When, later in the week, Dux repeated her concert, she caused the Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy to exclaim of Strauss...
...quietly in my district here . . . and allow my fellow countrymen who stand for the law ... to witness a man going with dripping fingers to the ballot box. The registration and voting of people who are not naturalized citizens is a crime. ... I am informed the names of such persons will be presented to you. ... If a man casts a dishonest ballot he cocks and fires a gun at the heart of America. Whether a bribe is given or taken in a Congressional election, it is a violation of the laws of the U. S. I am informed violations of this...
...first time in his life House Speaker William Brockman Bankhead watched his daughter Tallulah act in a finished play (Reflected Glory), tearfully observed as the curtain fell: "Parental restraint prevents my gushing. . . ." Before the curtain rose, he signed the $950,000,000 Relief Deficiency Bill in his box...
...named Gunerius Torvic. Last month Missionary Torvic reached Minnesota on leave, got in touch with an enthusiastic and learned egg-collector of San Francisco named Milton Smith Ray. A deal was arranged. In San Francisco last week Collector Ray tremulously unwrapped a package, shipped by express, consisting of twelve boxes, one inside another, each one wrapped in cotton. From the innermost box Mr. Ray removed the Aepyornis titan egg-intact...