Word: cold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fish, being cold-blooded animals, decompose rapidly after removal from their watery homes. To be transported, they must be frozen. Of several fish-freezing methods, the Taylor Process is speediest. The fish are docked, bathed, chopped up, unedible portions being removed and fillets (steaks) left. Then the fillets are put on a flat aluminum plate, on which they travel slowly through the freezing room, like amusement park visitors riding on a scenic railway. Interesting, too, is the scenery, as the walls and ceiling are covered with glittering stalactite formations. But the aluminum boat travels not over water but over calcium...
...seems impossible that such cold blooded practices may be allowed for long in any civilised society, but the growing indifference to the rights of individuals at present noticeable in this country appears to admit of anything. The vigor with which the present offenders in the name of law and order are prosecuted may serve as an index to the extent that a respect for an order that is higher than law still remains in the United States...
...genesis of 1) a scar on his wrist, 2) his animosity towards women. Aged 10, when his friend's mother embraced him he wriggled out of it. Aged 20, off at the War, when the Stroud blood in him got hot for women, his mind remained cold as cash. Aged 25, he discovered that he wanted a fortune and a blonde wife, a maker of men. When a Stroud wanted something. Destiny always took a hand; the Stroud got it. This Stroud now fixed upon one Lady Isabel. Her eyes were of "green ice," her hair was golden...
Sebastian Spering Kresge sells adhesive tape, artificial flowers, bloomers, brassieres, buttons, batteries, combs, cold drinks, dishcloths, envelopes, embroidery...
...North Bergen, N. J., Arthur Lambert, laborer, disowned his daughter Myrtle who insisted on riding freight trains, once going as far as Baltimore. Said he: "I have knocked her cold several times, but I can't knock this foolishness...