Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nizam of Hyderabad is supposed to have once refused to pay 6? for a dab of ice cream, rebuking the vendor for asking this "high price." In Sunday supplements he is said to have his worn clothing cut down to fit the next smaller member of the Royal Family, and so on. In fact the World's Richest Man is just about as tight & loose with his money as the poorer John D. Rockefellers. One of his old Hyderabad customs is never to receive one of his subjects, no matter how poor, unless the subject brings a cash present...
...when she bundled in The Pursuit of Happiness, as a serious young woman with journalistic ambitions which have no outlet for the moment except acting as her mother's secretary. The horn-rimmed glasses and blue jeans in which she first appears vanish quickly, but not the raspberry-ice freshness of manner which saves her cutenesses from being altogether silly. A topical note is injected into this warm and sprightly comedy when she asks her father: ''What do you think of these 15 judges-do you think he'll get away with it?" "Well," her father...
...Winter may find himself outwitted, even if he holds back all snow, for the entries are coming in so well that the U.S.E.A.S.A. announces that it is making tentative plans to hold the meet anyhow, using shaved ice for the slope of the runway and the hillside. Park Carpenter, second vice-president of the Association, who is in Laconia making final arrangements for the championships, is still praying for snow. But if this fails to materialize, winter sport fans may witness the unique spectacle of an otherwise bare hillside bisected by a glittering, steep ribbon of snow, with...
...conspiracy to melt the ice the night before the Yale hockey game, Winthrop House has engaged Claude Hopkins to count the measures at its Lucky Number Dance on Friday evening, March...
...Compton Cup, and Harvard hasn't won a race against the Tigers since athletic relations were renewed between the two Colleges. Principal cause for this Tiger streak has been the fact that their crews get onto the water two weeks before Harvard, on the average. But there is no ice now on the Charles, and Bolles is holding his breath. If his crew can get out on the water within the next couple of weeks, and at present that seems very probable, chances of beating Princeton are excellent. If not, it is going to be another uphill struggle...