Word: ices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely imitated stair dance, danced down Broadway to celebrate his 61st birthday. Twice married, Bojangles credited his stamina and success to vanilla ice cream and teetotaling, lived sumptuously in Harlem, gambled and generously gave away his earnings (between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000), was finally hospitalized on a benefit fund...
Less spectacular was the first line of Captain Myles Huntington, Dave Abbot, and Doug Anderson, which brought the Crimson only two goals. Nevertheless, whenever this line was one the ice, it controlled the puck, worked more steadily than the second line, and developed more pass plays...
...week at the Arena an Boston Skating Club in an effort to fill the holes left by such graduated standouts as Dave Key, Tom Moseley, and Dick Grecley. The first game comes up Saturday with M.I.T., and the coaches have a fair idea of who will take the ice. But there isn't any starting lineup...
...Immaculate Virgin, on a Winter Night." Though contemptuous in nature, it is a clam, lamenting scorn--subtly cognizant of the fact that the poet himself is a part of the world he is criticizing. "Lady, the night has got us by the heart--words turn to ice in my dry throat praying for a land without a prayer." Throughout Merton expresses him self simply and sublimely--"the night is falling and the dark steals all the blood from the scarred west." Religious poetry is as its best when it is unrefined emotion, when the poet does not try to explain...
This is not a book which lends itself to criticism, for it is made from well-written, timely, lively copy. It is, of course, limited by its subject matter--it only covers war, politics, religion, medicine, death, birth, love, hate, courage, coward-ice, comedy, and tragedy...