Word: ices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What started it was a love feast ten long years ago. In 1929 Mrs. Verinda Brown had sat down at the paradisal table set by Father Divine with chicken, ham, potatoes, rice, corn, cabbage, scalloped tomatoes, hominy, carrots, beets, a two-foot cheese, five different kinds of pie, ice cream, and "two cakes as big as automobile tires." After three hours, she rose and cried: "I feel different than when I came...
Sophisticated New Yorkers, accustomed to the finesse of their annual Skating Club Carnivals, have been slow to warm up to professional, itinerant ice shows. Last week, however, when the Ice Follies of 1940 hit town, New Yorkers crammed Madison Square Garden to the rafters for six nights, whistled and stomped like yokels. For suddenly, it seemed, the variety-show-on-ice had crystallized into first-rate entertainment...
When she was halfway across the pavement, the waitress slipped and fell on the ice. A 1938 black Ford sedan, coming up at 30 miles an hour, began skidding towards her but she remained frozen with terror directly in front of its path...
...Wickliffe, fast Bellboy left defense, after playing a considerable part of the match, was put out of action early in the second period when he had a bad fall on the ice...
Hilarious scene: Nick's underworld friends bringing their babies (about two dozen) to sing Happy Birthday to Nick Jr. When they proffer baloney, salami, beer and pop for refreshments, Nick sends for ice cream. "It will be up in a minute," he says. Queasy Nora's ageless comeback: "You're telling...