Word: icebox
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...school-car teachers, housing is no problem: one end of the car is fitted up as a living-bedroom, kitchen, bathroom. The Government supplies all equipment, ice for the icebox, oil for the lamps, coal to keep the car warm when temperature nips around 55° below. Passing trains drop off magazines and newspapers. Main out-of-pocket expense: food, which is bought along...
...there was a renascence of sprightlier activity. In Los Angeles one Jim Moran, who had once sold an icebox to an Eskimo, was sitting on an ostrich egg. He wore a feather headdress, a pair of "hatching pants" and thought he would bring forth a small ostrich in 25 days. Newark had a "pants burglar," who came in through windows like a wraith, left a penny on the floor for his victims. In Ellensburg, Wash, an ex-cowpuncher named Larry Hightower was preparing to push a wheelbarrow around the world...
...famous "red room" at the Post, no screaming headlines but a modest front-page story recorded his arrival. Staffers met Hoyt and his wife at a city-room reception, liked them on sight. Muttered one old hand: "It's like a warm breath of spring in an icebox...
...fresh creation; and Hume Cronyn's Freddie Potts might be something straight out of the early Booth Tarkington. Slim Robert Walker is wholly likable as the husband. June Allyson is a model little bride, especially when she sidles up to her man with an icebox tray in her hand and says with a happy sigh, "Our first ice cubes...
...making the "real jazz" pay enough for tea for two, or keep body & soul together night & day: "We bled to death. We were eating off each other's wrists. We had one paper hat right on the hook but when we mentioned money he jumped back in the icebox." Another potential sponsor died during negotiations: "He went cool on us. They had to throw dirt...