Word: icebox
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...wrote Billie, "destined to be jealous of the entire Follies chorus and star list for the rest of my married life. Once when Flo came in at 5 a.m., after seeing Olive Thomas I suppose, I crept downstairs to find him raiding the icebox. Nearby was an enormous silver soup tureen and ladle. I seized the ladle and belabored him about the head and shoulders...
...before seen in the musty old palace. In two three-hour periods he managed to get in 151 individual interviews. (Grumbled one Ecuadorian: "I didn't have time even to greet him properly.") At 1:30 he passed up Ecuador's hearty midday meal, raided an office icebox for sandwiches and milk straight from one of his own farms, then got to work again. "What, no siesta?" exclaimed incredulous Ecuadorians...
...travel without his auburn-haired wife Mae, and listens to the family phonograph when other men go to nightclubs. When a meeting of the U.A.W. executive council keeps him in downtown Detroit after the dinner hour, he never fails to telephone, always tries to get home for an icebox snack instead of eating in a restaurant...
...women's current grievances, such as they were, were technological rather than political. Chief villain was the household chore. Cried Laundry Worker Amy Ballinger: "What about the man who buys you an icebox or a sweeper as a gift? A man marries you and says 'You go down in the cellar and do the washing.' The hell with him." Piped Edith M. Stern, a magazine writer: "The mechanical gadgets are just the old-fashioned spinning wheel in modern dress...
Boston College edged them 7 to 6 last night in the St. Botolph Street icebox in what some local papers termed an upset score, and Boston University's New England champions squeezed by them 7 to 5 in an earlier encounter. It will be remembered that the Crimson dropped B.C., 4 to 3, but was humbled by the Terriers...