Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just after one o'clock the Advance lurched to a halt. Trainmen suspected a hot box. Diners in the next-to-last car looked idly through the windows at the frame houses of Naperville. From the 13th car, an ordinary Pullman, a flagman raced up the cinders to warn the Exposition on the wide curve behind...
Save Your Fury. Mahler's widow, now in her sixties, was a 20-year-old counterpoint student when she married the slight, 41-year-old opera conductor. His ferociousness in the orchestra pit was already a legend. By abolishing the claque and ordering latecomers toa special box, Mahler had angered performers and audiences alike. Once the musicians stubbornly refused to rehearse another note, and Mahler barked: "Gentlemen, keep your fury for the performance. Then at last we shall have [it] played as it should...
...only other Austrian of Mahler's musical stature was Richard Strauss. The Mahlers and Strausses shared a box at the opening of Strauss's opera, Feuersnot. Writes Alma Mahler: "Strauss thought of nothing but money ... the whole time he had a pencil in his hand. . . . [He] calculated his profits to the last penny." Strauss's formidable wife, Pauline, said to Mahler: "My God, for a million-well no, that's not enough-five million! And then Richard can stop manufacturing music...
...bird's initial appearance was at the Colonial Theatre, where, after a brief word of explanation to the baffled audience as to the nature of the Ibis and the Harvard Lampoon, Blackstone produced the mounted creature from an empty box. The magician's call for photographers indicated that the press had been tipped off to the event...
True Confession. In Bristol, England, the Midland Bank got a chewed-up letter, on its envelope a faintly apologetic note from the postoffice: "Eaten by snails in the letter box...