Word: ices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...track with Elizabeth, was now definitely on the outside. Yes, Elizabeth had worn Glenn's gold football, Mrs. Taylor admitted, but only as "a perfectly normal part of growing up." Elizabeth, looking alluringly grown up last week, flashed a 3½-carat diamond at reporters. "Nice piece of ice," she said happily. "At least, that's what Bill calls...
...sophomore year, I purchased a ticket to an ice-hockey match. I admitted to a friend of mine that the contest was rather exciting for the first few minutes, but I was forced to add: "When you've seen them chase up and down the court once, you've seen the whole game." An old gentleman (whom I later discovered to be a prominent Boston Harvard Club member) overheard my remark, called some attendants, and had me escorted to the exit of the arena...
...small band, including myself, which does not shriek, moan, gibber, or drool at the actions of local athletes. (I would like to make it plain that my group is not "intellectual," and that its scholastic average is only slightly above the average. My friends and I enjoy moving-pictures, ice-cream, comic-strips, and in most other respects are Typically American...
...Secretariat, a 39-story office skyscraper towering above the long low assembly building, looked more like an ice-cream sandwich. Its north and south walls were the ice cream-solid bands of marble. The east and west walls were corrugated expanses of blue-green glass. Each wall consisted of 2,700 windows held by a tracery of aluminum. Their effect, said the FORUM, would be that of "a mosaic reflecting the sky from a thousand facets...
...detailed enough to make even blasé Miamians take notice. It listed the addresses and telephone numbers of bookie joints, houses of prostitution and numbers-game headquarters. And it flatly charged that these rackets were operating with the connivance of the Miami police, who were paid off with "ice money," i.e., graft...