Word: icebox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Owning no yacht, motorboat, private airplane, country seat, automobile, icebox or TV set ... I hesitate to forward this questionnaire," wrote one English reader. "Besides, I am a little piqued at finding no space for the make and year of my bicycle...
...building it is easy to live outside the rooms. On every floor there is the customary smoker, with a kitchenette tossed in. According to Heddy Schumacher, the housemother, no one has yet complained of any icebox raids. On each floor there are also drying rooms with laundry facilities, and two bath-rooms, with two baths and six showers. One freshman complained that as she was sitting next to a tub on the first day of the term wearing only a man's shirt the door suddenly opened and a man walked through, pausing only to give her a bewildered glance...
...actually eat better here than in the dorms," they claim. Helpings of food are plentiful, and there is the added attraction of raiding the icebox between meals. Peanut butter, crackers, and fruit are to be had for the taking at Peach House. Girls sign up for the things they take and the cost is apportioned at the end of the year. Harvard men often appear as guests at meals, and generally seem impressed with the domestic talents of the girls...
Disregarding these elements of personal taste, his book serves several useful functions. It dispels the theory that a martial cannot be shaken. It ridicules the theory that a woman cannot make a martial. And it warns against leaving the mixed gin and Vermouth in the icebox or mixing more than you need for a particular round...
...prices before the general price freeze of Jan. 25, and the marked-up goods are already on retailers' shelves. Under the margin control plan, the increases will be passed on to the consumer. This is the "thawing" which Di Salle admitted would come during the transfer from the icebox to the deep freeze...