Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from nothing more than a happy combination of letters. "Red" Grange, former sensation of mid-Western gridirons and the despair of ambitious backfield men, has found an unrivalled formula for living in opulence with an expenditure of nothing, in the way of effort, a year. Tired of supplying neighboring ice boxes with their heavy fuel, weary of dashing up and down mud covered gridirons, even, it seems, fatigued by the importunities of the camera man and the movie director, he has found an easier, and a more profitable method of employing his talents. He now sits comfortably at home while...
...hand the President held a wooden spoon; in the other a plate of ice cream. He and Mrs. Coolidge were giving their annual garden party for disabled veterans; received nearly 1,000 of them on the South Lawn of the White House grounds. Secretary of State and Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, et al, attended...
Charles Siringo, born in the County of Matagorda, Tex., in 1855, was a cowboy from seven on.* For 40 years he roamed about the West, either shooting at bandits with a large revolver or selling ice cream and cigars in his shop. He helped chase Billy the Kid, whose bloodthirst was of an extraordinary coolness. As a detective he functioned for several years at taming the Wild West. Now he functions at pumping Wild West atmosphere into the eager balloon of his reminiscences. The verses above, quoted reminiscently, describe an oldtime bandit. Also they describe the spirit of Author Siringo...
...here was my little friend lost in his ice cream and the sight of the revolving fairies, happy, not thinking of sorrow and misfortune and the really important things of life. How he got home and why I shall be glad to include in my next thesis, "Middle Broken English and Who Broke It or the Graduate Students Dream...
...clan of seamen, with a black patch over his right eye, left the Paris airport of Le Bourget (TIME, May 16). It was barely possible that they had lost their way in the fog and were alive somewhere in the wilderness of Labrador. It was more likely that heavy ice on the wings of their plane forced them to death in the waters of the Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland. Several reputable citizens of Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, swore that they saw (others heard) a plane in the air at about the hour that the White Bird...