Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specific case of Hedda Gabler, her figure has no voluptuousness to soften the cruelty of the character. She can wear with grace the smock-like robe pre scribed by Ibsen, Never without a cigaret, the Le Galliénne Hedda is bored but thinly vital as though blood of ice were quickening her movements, thoughts, words...
...thousands who followed the flight of General Nobile and felt the sudden silence of his craft, "The Italia," and traced day by day the rescue effort, knew somehow that there was a Russian boat called an ice-breaker and named "Krassin," which reminded many only of some wild drink, beating her way north among the floes. Perhaps there was in the minds of some a sense of incongruity that a Soviet ship, owned by a government which most people think is the enemy of mankind, should be on a mission of mercy...
Stripped of all ornament, bare and ruthless, the stark tragedy of the crash and of the separation of the party of survivors after nerves and bodies had broken under the long vigile on the ice make a story that should hold romanticist and realist alike. The castaways themselves tell of the great white silence and its terror...
...score against them the B. A. A. forwards stormed the Harvard cage and Hilliard slipped an easy shot between Newell's legs a minute after the opening whistle. He followed it less than a minute later with a hard drive which resulted from a brilliant, unassisted dash down the ice. Harvard's fighting pitch was aroused by the B. A. A. lead of 4 to 3 and its sallies toward the B. A. A. goals, usually led by Lakin, were determined. A beautiful shot by F. R. G. Giddens '30 evened the count...
Charlotte pirouetted on artificial ice. . . . Houdini wore straitjackets . . . Annette Kellerman in black epidermal tights . . . Toto . . . Marceline . . . Perche-rons . . . choruses not as pretty but much harder-working than the later Follies...