Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chanin Building on nearby Lexington Avenue, a lawyer named Arthur Knox was listening to a visitor in his 42nd-floor office. Hard-of-hearing, Mr. Knox was wearing an electrical earphone. All of a sudden he began to hear a description of ice-skating at the World's Fair's Sun Valley...
...words, "undoubtedly the biggest individual draw sports ever produced," but she was also Hollywood's third-ranking box-office star* with four phenomenally successful pictures behind her and another, just released, well calculated to ring the bell again. Sonja Henie has been called variously Queen of the Ice, Pavlova on Skates and the Nasturtium of the North. But no captioner has hit her off quite so neatly as did Broadway's knowing old verbal free skater, Damon Runyon. Sonja Henie, says admiring Mr. Runyon, is just a gee-whizzer...
...Last week Band Leader Vincent Lopez announced that he had discovered Alaska's first swing song, The Ice-Worm Wiggle, or Akh-Tu-Wu-Ye-Keh, Cheechako ("Welcome Stranger"). The piece begins: See the sneaking, peeping ice worms wiggle. Its chorus...
...Turn the Ice-Worm Wiggle loose! Glaciers gleam with misty dews. Thrilling ice-worms lurk for you Where Alaskan icebergs cruise. "Akh-tu-wu-ye-keh" to you! Let's mush on to a sourdough stew! . . . Mr. Lopez proposes, at the Claridge Hotel in Memphis this month, to popularize the Wiggle, a shuffling, hopping dance which ends with everyone pointing in the air, shouting...
...Cambridge, Mass., 92 years ago, Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa chapter banished liquor from its dinner table, for cause. Last week, saturated with its ice-watery annual banquets, reunioning members unanimously voted to bring liquor back...