Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next night, when the same little old man entered the royal box in London's Drury Lane Theater, he was dressed in evening clothes. The audience rose to its feet and thunderously applauded. Up in his box, his watery blue eyes more liquid than usual, the great composer, 83-year-old Richard Strauss, bowed jerkily, first to the orchestra, then to the audience. Then he listened with half-parted lips to his music as played by the well-instructed Sir Thomas...
...Allegro was "perfect," "a work of rare distinction," something that "made history on Broadway" (the Times's Brooks Atkinson found it a thing of "great beauty and purity [which] just missed the final splendor of a perfect work of art"). And Author Hammerstein had been informed by the box office that his show had a record advance take of $750,000 in the till. The talk of Broadway for long weeks before it opened, Allegro would still be talked about a long while after...
...National Anthem fared less favorably, however, as Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, wearing civilian togs in the president's box with Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., forgot to doff his top-piece...
...love seat and made off with her jewels. He first got Zsazsa out of bed in her black chiffon negligee, she said, and took the diamond ring, diamond bracelet and diamond necklace she had been sleeping in. Then he got the stuff off the night table, and the box full of diamond odds & ends on the floor under a chair. Zsazsa's estimate of the take: at least $500,000 worth. Police estimate: $150,000 at most...
...chief victims of these shenanigans were some 4,000 small U.S. candy manufacturers, many of whom have already cut the size of their chocolate bars, or upped the sales price from 5? to 6?. (The standard price for the "dollar" box of chocolates is now $1.25.) Unless the price of cocoa dropped, many would be forced to go out of business...