Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artist who wears a monk's gown, urged a quick peace, arguing that the Allied war aims are: continuation of Versailles policies, contraceptive control of the German population, making the world safe for Big Business. Letitia Fairfield, sister of Novelist Rebecca West: "The Catholic press will cut no ice morally so long as they make persecutions of the church the test of right and wrong in international affairs." Author George Glasgow: "Stemming atheistic bolshevism and bringing Europe back to Almighty God will not be achieved by this...
...operation which consisted of the bisection of one of the ethmoid [branches of the nasal] nerves. The results were . . . discouraging, since instead of curing hay fever, this procedure sometimes produced neuralgia, hemorrhages and double vision. . . . [In the U. S.] local treatments such as belladonna plasters over the kidneys and ice bags over the vertebrae were enthusiastically recommended. A worthy Ph.D. pleaded for selfdiscipline, fervently exhorting his hearers not to get the sneezing habit-which was very much like bidding a patient with a raging fever to keep cool. . . . Treatment ranged from what was called respiratory gymnastics to such Spartan measures...
Last week the 51,731-ton luxury liner Bremen, missing for six weeks, was discovered in the place where she had been most generally believed to be hiding-Murmansk. The pride of the German merchant marine* had been sitting in Russia's only ice-free Arctic port for a full month. The account of her hair-raising northward run from New York, through the British blockade to sanctuary, came from Elbert Post, ship's cook, only Dutchman in her crew. Repatriated, he gave the story of the Bremen's, last voyage to the Amsterdam newspaper, Het Volk...
...gaslit era before cinema and radio, St. Nicholas was the No. 1 U. S. magazine for young people. Like the old quarry where swimming was forbidden, like the first ice on the pond in winter, it was an essential part of childhood-a storehouse of fruitful articles and hair-raising fiction for adolescents...
...field day as Randolph, ex-Hearst newspaperman, now a subaltern with a mechanized unit, stood smiling with his blue-frocked bride. The ceremony was followed by a large buffet luncheon party at Admiralty House, complete with dukes and duchesses, where Winston downed two goblets of champagne, munched ice cream, commented lugubriously: "We must eat, we must...