Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BELOW THE ROARING FORTIES-F. D. Ommanney-Longmans, Green ($3). Antarctic adventures (1929-1937) of a London zoologist, with smelly descriptions of whaling, acute descriptions of penguins and seals, warm descriptions of the Discovery's, Norwegian crew members, an exciting account of narrow escape from polar ice and marooning...
...Behn Riggs, Jr. '41, noted for his work in bubbleless ice and high-speed photography, is now experimenting in electrostatics. Recently he succeeded in determining the change in voltage caused by combing his hair...
...Coincidentally, discovering a plot to solicit members for the Young Communist League in Cambridge high schools by means of ice-cream parties (in which Harvard undergraduates allegedly were active), Cambridge's Mayor John W. Lyons announced a counterstroke: The city will supply its children with ice cream...
...short on plot, never quite masses its laughs through mounting situations, merely sprinkles them brightly at regular intervals. As slight of build as the kids it treats of, What a Life is, like them, young, lively, fast on its feet, full of agonies a first kiss or even an ice-cream soda could drive away...
...book, it suggests the rambling, good-natured discourse of some cultivated gentleman who has known all the literary great of his day, as well as all the agreeable anecdotes about them; who never gives offense by anything he says, and who moves leisurely from anecdotes about ice skating in Concord to speculation about the changing rules of baseball and the cut of bathing suits. The anecdotes are genial, but if they consider what Julian might have contributed to an understanding of his father, readers are likely to be disappointed in The Memoirs of Julian Hawthorne...