Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bought as a "surprise" for Harry Widener by his grandfather when the young book collector was abroad, he never lived to realize that he owned it. On his return trip to this country he perished when the White Star steamer Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic in April...
...sobersided dean of a stuffy music school, she is a not-very-convincing ugly duckling. Her horn-rimmed spectacles, sensible oxfords and slicked-back hair wouldn't fool anyone. But for story purposes, Trumpeter James refers to her as an "iceberg." The criticism piques Maureen. Before you can say Max Factor, she has gone shopping for a fancy hairdo and a six-skin blue fox stole. As a swan, she is, of course, downright sensational. The long, low whistles she inspires in all the male members of the cast are the most realistic part of the entire picture. Once...
...disposal of those who would combat bigotry, and who would preserve merely credulous and ill-informed people from the infection of intolerance, a tremendous arsenal of fact and of reference. Not content with the merely local effects of bigotry, Gustavus Myers moves, with exhaustive industry, in the iceberg depths of precedent and origin-deep into England, deep into ancient Rome...
Hiler had submitted vivid canvases of a nautilus, a purple flower and an iceberg to the Los Angeles Museum's fourth annual showing of local artists. His primitivist father, 77-year-old Meyer Hiler, had also offered work. When the Museum's sole juror, Director Roland McKinney, turned the Hilers down, Hilaire wrote...
Once, between wars, he was forced down in the African desert and rescued by a British R.A.F. captain. Once he landed his plane on an iceberg in Greenland and was lost for four days alone on the ice. On his two trips to the U.S., for the National Air Races in 1931 and 1933, he chilled crowds by picking up handkerchiefs with a hook on his wing tip. He dived a type of plane he had never flown before under the 135-foot clearance of New York's Hell Gate Bridge. But he distrusted speedy skyscraper elevators, preferred stairs...