Word: icebox
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...every one knows, the White House, erected in 1799, had a primitive icebox of shaggy lumber. The ice was cut from the Potomac River and stored in a deep cellar adjoining the Presidential abode. Ceremonious John Adams always needed a big supply; frugal Thomas Jefferson used little...
...Mellett of the Canton Daily News stopped his automobile in front of his house, to unload Mrs. Mellett and their friends, the Walter Vails, who were going to have a bite of midnight supper before getting along to bed. Mrs. Mellett led the Vails inside and made for the icebox. Publisher Mellett drove his car around to the garage...
...expressed an opinion upon this new and formidable electrical rival. But the National Electric Light Association estimated that (ice costing 60c. per 100 Ib. and electricity 5.3c. per kilowatt hour) in a temperature of 70° the electric refrigerator would consume 2.62 kilowatt hours per day and the icebox would consume 40 Ibs. of ice. Thus, for such a day, the cost of the electric refrigerator would be 13.89c., against 24c. for the icebox; on an annual basis these figures would be $50.67 and $86.40 respectively. The charge for maintenance on the electric refrigerator is estimated...
...from the previous Pollyanna books**) to be." It rains on her wedding-day, Jimmy hasn't much money, their apartment looks out on fire-escapes, Jimmy eats up the chicken-salad she was saving for dinner, just because he happens to find it alone and unprotected in the icebox - but things of this sort are, to Pollyanna, merely added reasons for finding something to be "glad" about. Even when the War comes and Jimmy must leave for Plattsburg, does she weep? Certainly not! She strokes his hair, "murmurs tender comforting things," sews his buttons on, sends him away with...
...Catherine's Hospital in Brooklyn has installed a phonograph in its operating room. It is painted white, like an icebox...