Word: icemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canadian teams will face the University icemen during the Christmas vacation. On December 29, they will meet McGill on the Boston Arena. The Crimson will tackle Toronto, last year's Canadian National Champions, in Madison Square Garden in New York on December 31, playing a return match in Boston on January 3. Both of the Canadian teams are fast skaters and accurate shooters. The University puck-chasers will have to play stellar hockey to conquer these teams, it is generally conceded...
...genius for wonderment. In some way he has guarded his emotional constitution so that he enjoys life's human minutiae, which is extraordinary when you consider with what bloodless generalities a publicist has to make friends. Friend of Eugene Field, friend of bees and bootblacks, bovines and businessmen, icemen and janitors, iris and blue jays, "David Grayson" is almost always proof against his own sentimentalities. These essays on innocent recklessness in the making of friends reflect an enthusiasm that is as far from wallowing as from warping. They were written for private satisfaction; they should cause public delight...
...Lake Placid, paradise of icemen, sport went forward last week, not with pick and tongs, but with long blades of polished steel. Francis Allen of Chicago (TIME, Feb. 16) slashed the glassy lake with his runners, defeated Charles Gorman of Canada, champion last season, 120 points to 80, was crowned amateur speed skating champion...
...Bronx (borough of New York City), rival factions of ice-dealers fought a pitched battle in the streets. Ice-picks, ice-tongs, blocks of ice and iron bars were wielded. Six icemen were injured, eight arrested...
...appreciation from the Georgia legislature. Only was there an echo from Alaska missing. Possibly the sight of Hurricane Gulch, Alaska, persuaded Mr. Harding that bunkers are trivial affairs after all. "But," protest the politicians, " he should respect the golfing voters. There are only 54,000 voters in Alaska-mostly icemen! " " Yes," replies the poor golfer struggling wearily around a crowded Sunday course, " there are a million golfing voters in the States- mostly icemen...