Word: ices
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hockey team starts practice informally today, when 47 ice prospects report to Manager L. L. Wadsworth Jr., '30 for the touch football workout which is scheduled as part of the daily program for the next fortnight. Another score of men are expected by Tuesday, when intensive practice starts for all but football...
...declare strength or weakness-has been losing caste. Replacing it has emerged a new convention, a "forcing" system in which the initial bidder, wanting stronger indication of his partner's strength, bids not one club but two in any suit. After many cigarets had been smoked and much ice-water sipped from black goblets the Vanderbilt trophy was presented to the team of the New York Bridge Whist Club. The winners had used the new forcing system. So had the Cavendish Club team, which came in second, and so had the Knickerbocker Club team, which was third...
...sick inside." Other characters who experience a chapter-the-last are: 1) a lady "always wringing something" whom a bull gores; 2) a man who dies of shock when his wife threatens him with a pillow; 3) a doctor who falls into a hole in the ice and dies from exposure rather than arouse anyone; 4) a countrymaid who dies after eating the Sanatorium's canned meat. Norwegian humor and pessimism lend distinction to this bleak novel...
...Niagara-potent, dye-making Schoellkopf family gave $1,500,000. Teachers in Buffalo's public schools gave $23,244. Publisher Edward Hubert Butler of Buffalo's Evening News gave $50,000. The Hoefler Ice Cream Co. gave $2,500. Driver Cooke and three other trustees gave $800,000. Out-of-town alumni sent $29,450 and 175 students at the Law School raised $2,963.50. . . . When finally the crusade was over and all the cash in hand, Driver Cooke said: "I'm very happy-and goddam tired...
...water and dragged their planes to shore. They did not know that they were only 40 miles from the Fort St. James. Even had they known, they could not have crossed the water. After long delay the winter freeze arrived. Then came Eskimos who guided them over the jagged ice to hospitality. Colonel McAlpine had lost...