Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buster Crabbe's Aquaparade of 1949 is frankly an experiment to see if a water show can travel from city to city successfully, an experiment to see it swimmers can crack the vast market now held jointly by the circus, the roller skating derbies, and the ice revues...
...similar charge by selling a pint of his blood, buying booze with the proceeds. Cause & Effect. In Astoria, N.Y., Walter Stanger, whose two small runaway sons had just been picked up by police for the sixth time, complained: "It's you cops. You give the boys so much ... ice cream and candy...
While the balcony guests ate ice-cream sandwiches, the downstairs crowd ate Surprise Monteux, a concoction of Danish spongecake, French vanilla bisque, raspberry melba sauce and chopped walnuts sprinkled with brandy. It was no surprise to Gourmet Monteux himself; he had had a sample in advance, and some had even been air-expressed to friends.* But he forked away with a will (see cut). Said "he: "Peach melba, pah! Nobody will talk about it again...
...proved once more that the West was in Berlin to stay. Announcing that the airlift would be stepped up once more, the U.S. commander, Brigadier General Frank Howley, declared last Sunday: "Tomorrow is the first day of spring. Neither the Soviet blockade at the Elbe nor winter's ice or snow have kept food, medical aid and coal from coming into the city. Attempts to scare the population have failed ... It must be clear even to the densest and most ill-willed Communists that their tactics are not succeeding...
...Bill Durnan was not the most graceful man on the ice. With the padding they wear, goalies seldom are. He seemed to get out of position a lot. This was deceptive on Big Bill's part. "Durnan fools you," said another National Hockey League star last week. "One second he leaves a big hole on one side of the cage, but the next he's in there on top of the puck. He knows he can move fast...