Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes (Roger John Brownlow Keyes), 73, doughty, fire-&-ice British naval hero of the famed World War I raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend, organizer of World War II's "butcher-and-bolt" Commandos (his son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, was killed in a Commando raid on Rommel's African HQ); of cardiac asthma; at his estate in Buckingham...
Manhattan's Theatre Guild last week excitedly opened a bulky package from one of its favorite playwrights. Not since Days Without End in 1934 had Eugene O'Neill come through with a new play. But last week he sent the Guild three: The Ice Man Cometh, A Moon for the Misbegotten and A Touch of the Poet...
...Buffalo, were buried under five feet of snow. In one day, only two freight trains managed to pull out of Gardenville, which normally handles 50 to 60 trains a day. At sidings throughout the north and east, tired, cursing railroadmen struggled to throw switches half covered with snow and ice, kept on the job 16 hours a day. Thousands of men were recruited to dig out the railroads...
...week's end, railroads had just about dug their way out of the piled-up drifts. But the outlook was grim. Hollow-eyed, bone-tired railroaders who paused long enough to look at their calendars found that officially winter was but a few days old. Snow and ice, worst of all their troubles, had just begun...
Died. Thomas J. Martin, 64, New York City detective who liked chocolate ice cream, scorned the "looking-glass detective work" of fictional sleuths, solved or helped solve many a notable and grisly murder (James Masterson, Helen Clevenger, the Snyder-Gray case); after a heart attack; in Queens...