Word: icebox
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...payrolls; into Fairbanks alone last week Pan American was flying 2,500 laborers, cat skinners, carpenters. Alaskans drink an ironic toast: "Here's to Joe Stalin-Alaska's best friend," and speculate endlessly on rumors of similar activity in Siberia. For Uncle Joe is filling up the icebox...
...main articles of furniture are the icebox and the telephone. . . . The main meal is held in the middle of the night in the kitchen, and consists of a glass of milk and cold chicken from the icebox. . . . The fauna of America consists mainly of the horse and the cairn terrier; now and then the discerning eye may detect, in the distance, a stampede of cows. The flora is largely confined to the orchid and the long-stemmed rose. The rose is a peculiarly interesting variety, having extraordinary lasting qualities and no thorns...
...stake claims in Antarctica, and refused to say whether he would do so now. He politely pooh-poohed its strategic value, either for military operations or for the minerals it contained, but pointed out that the 1,700,000 square miles the expedition had explored would make a wonderful icebox for storing the world's food supplies...
Another place had a waisthigh, turquoise-blue floor vase, filled with paper calla lilies, and a great brass Russian samovar for decorations. But it had no icebox, no bed linen, no telephone. The price: $250 a month-$750 in advance plus a deposit of $500-which we would probably not get back. Said the perspiring owner, "Sempre tem vento" (There's always a breeze). "Sempre?" we asked. "Sempre," she replied, daintily wiping her forehead...
...Thomas Dixon's The Clansman was filmed as Birth of a Nation; Sir James Barrie's Admirable Crichton became a movie called Male and Female (1919); Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was retitled Love (1927); James M. Cain's Baby in the Icebox was filmed as She Made...