Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...According to Time Magazine you have broken all Harvard records for ice-cream consumption by eating eighteen dishes after dinner stop Having just consumed forty small dishes equalling twenty large dishes of ice-cream directly after dinner I consider myself worthy of defending Princeton's honor by challenging you to an ice-cream consumption duel after the Harvard-Princeton football game next Saturday stop Since I am not a runner I suggest we play eighteen holes of golf before breakfast next morning stop Princeton hopes Harvard's ice-cream champion will not get cold feet." (Signed) Paul Vermont Tector...
...receipt of your telegram stop Please be advised that I should like very much to go to bat with you in an ice-cream eating duel stop Where shall we eat stop If Princeton beats Harvard in Saturday's football game I am willing to eat at Princeton stop If Harvard wins are you willing to come to Cambridge stop If tie I suggest eating at New Haven stop Await reply...
...started when the Vagabond was munching cinnamon toast and a sleeve knocked over the cup of Lipton tea into his lap. The edges of his coat and the top of his trousers were soaked, so that the persons standing beside the nickle-a-piece victrola and those gnawing at ice cream cones in their cars outside noticed the absurdity and laughed...
...looked on with disdain, turned out teams good enough to be invited to play the West's best. Today, football in the South still differs from football in other sections of the country. It is frequently played under a hot sun, while spectators sit in shirt sleeves eating ice cream, and players go onto the field barelegged, but the quality of Southern football wins respect from coast to coast. For, as a century ago the course of empire took its way Westward, the course of football now takes its way Southward...
...Harvard University, Freshman David ("Kentucky") Mitchell topped off his dinner with 18 successive helpings of ice cream, (twelve strawberry, six vanilla), next morning went out and won a crosscountry running trial. Said he: "It was nothing. I just kept on eating." Former record at the Harvard Union (clubhouse) was eleven ice creams...