Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part as full an assortment of plain and fancy sound and fury as it is the misfortune of most witnesses to recall. Finally he did not shoot any one at all and took the wife back to their little paradise-on-the-installment-plan, because he could not order ice and milk. She was a good woman. And had she been as sensible as she was good she would have fanned him with a short, blunt instrument and gone off to live with the other...
...receiving a large mail from admirers in the U. S., and not at all worried. They feel sure they will get through and time is no object. In the meantime, the Navy has been coöperating in wonderful fashion. The supply ship Gertrude Rask finally broke through the ice to Angmagsalik, on the south coast of Greenland, but found the clear space in the harbor too small and ice-infested for the fliers to land there. A new base has been found in a bay some fifteen miles from Angmagsalik and the "gobs" are painfully transporting supplies through...
Admiral Thomas P. Magruder is on board the flagship Richmond off Reykjavik in constant touch with the fliers; the torpedo boat destroyers Billingsley and Reid are stationed along the southern waters of Greenland; the cruiser Richmond completes the chain, being stationed as near to Angmagsalik as the ice permits. Planes from the Richmond flew to the new base and created a great sensation with the Eskimos, who had never seen such giant birds before. An Iceland historian has unearthed an old prophecy which states that giant birds will cross to Greenland before the month of August is out. This favorable...
Women's barber shops call themselves beauty parlors. Drug stores call themselves ice cream parlors. Clerks call themselves salesmen. Politicians call themselves statesmen. Flappers call themselves young ladies. But scientists call themselves scientists, and only newspapers call them savants...
...onetime light heavyweight boxing champion of Europe, knocked horizontal by the hammering face, rib and head blows of Tom Gibbons, of St. Paul, Minn., in the third round of what had been scheduled as a 20-round fight. The winner surveyed his handiwork, returned to his dressing room, ate ice-cream...