Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suave Major General Masaharu Homma, the man on the spot, even feigned surprise to find the British so annoyed because a few of their citizens had been undressed. He received 40 correspondents at his headquarters, which were lavishly spread with liquor, caviar, plates of ice cream, and other goodies now scarce in the British Concession, and there explained how it all happened. Some Japanese sentries, said the General, are simple peasants who do not understand European standards of modesty. His countrymen, he explained, do not mind disrobing in public or even parboiling in a public bath with members...
Annette Mills, a British song writer of some popularity, made up Boomps-a-Daisy, donned a gown with a bustle and, with a partner, began demonstrating the dance a month ago. It was featured in London dance halls, in provincial ice shows. This week Boomps-a-Daisy went into the big time when Band Leader Jack Hylton opened a ten-week revue at London's Palladium, had an Edwardian-costumed chorus perform the dance, invited the audience to join in in the aisles. Boomps-a-Daisy goes as follows: face partner, tap hands; clap hands to knees; "with great...
Peeks. At its worst, the Fair's nudity is so much peeping tommyrot. Unalluring are the Arctic Girls, frozen inside cakes of ice. Twittering and skipping about with bows & arrows, the droopy Amazons provide a mere comic-strip-tease. NTG's frightened-looking Sun Worshippers make customers the victims of a skin game...
...which ply up & down the river bringing vegetables and fruit to the Concessions, feared to come near. Two Chinese vegetable vendors who did were shot. The Concession still had large stores of flour and rice, but perishables were almost gone. Milk had disappeared by week's end; the ice supply was low, and it was 100° in the shade. Even in the French Concession, where vegetables were still obtainable, prices tripled...
Researchers at Corning put a dish of preshrunk glass on a cake of ice, then poured molten iron into the dish. It did not crack...