Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frozen pudding and a bottle of ether met in pitched battle in one of the refrigerating rooms of the Biological Laboratory recently. In the past some students have kept their box lunches and suppers in these "cold rooms." Others have insisted in storing their animals, alive and dead, fresh and preserved, in these same chambers. A showdown between the two factions was imminent...
...precipitated by a celebration held in the laboratory by certain workers not long ago. An imposing frozen pudding had been ordered for the occasion and placed in the refrigerating room. A Senior had seen fit to keep a bottle of ether in that same room...
...with Herbert Hoover, a notable change in the past three years has come over the public demeanor of Professor Albert Einstein. Whereas he was once almost as frozen and frightened in the presence of strangers and newshawks as was the onetime President of the U. S., the German mathematician now chuckles, gestures, jokes, smokes in public with considerable self-assurance. Last May Dr. Einstein made the short journey from Princeton to Philadelphia to receive the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute. A throng of scientists and dignitaries was assembled to hear what the medalist had to say. Einstein genially informed...
When Franklin Roosevelt became President, his cheery, mobile face was a delightful relief to White House cameramen weary of recording the frozen gloom which had become Herbert Hoover's face during his last two years in office. In his turn President Roosevelt, determined to set a Presidential high in frank, free, friendly treatment of the Press, had Secretary Early give the photographers a White House room to loaf in, proved most patient and generous in allowing himself to be snapped in all manner of unstudied, and sometimes thoroughly unheroic, attitudes. Though presumably annoyed, he made no public remonstrance even...
Novelist Wharton wrote a painful book. Her story of how Ethan and young Mattie, trying to escape the nagging claims of Ethan's sickly wife, become instead dependent on her attentions for the rest of their lives, is presented relentlessly, a bitter frieze of figures on a frozen ground. On stage, Ethan Frome is not quite so painful. The Davises have had some mercy on the wife Zenobia, probably because, as Miss Wharton originally wrote it. the part would not have fitted the compassionate stage manner of Pauline Lord. This reorientation of Zenobia required a general softening...