Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truxtun Beale's, so smart as Mme. Bonnet's at the French embassy. Her menus are adequate but not sumptuous. At the Alben Barkley dinner last week, the 24 guests had turtle soup, filet of beef, peas, browned potatoes, aspic salad, and a rum-and-ice-cream dessert...
Festerings in the Tanbark. While Hungarian art was thus being purified, the Communist citadel itself was polluted. Russian musicians, writers, painters, sculptors, drama critics, publishers, ice skaters and brass bands have already been purged. But the most awesome new menace to Soviet culture had festered in the tanbark of Russian circuses. It was known as "Western clownism...
...promoting business was not all Joe's idea. Last month in Chicago's Belmont Hotel, the champ had listened and nodded as two men unfolded the details of the deal. One of them was promotion-wise Arthur M. Wirtz, co-owner of Sonja Henie's Hollywood Ice Revue. The other was Grain Operator James D. Norris, son of the owner of the Detroit Red Wings. They offered Joe a third interest in a new promotional firm to be called the International Boxing Club. It sounded good to Joe. Last week, the three partners met again at Norris...
...second Yale game was rough, confusing, and played on the New Haven Arena's pencil-shaped ice surface, but it followed fairly closely the pattern of most recent Crimson games. The team played uncoordinated, indecisive hockey for two periods, then caught fire in the final 20 minutes and turned a close game (it was tied three all at the beginning of the third period) into a rout...
...were numberless. At five minute of the first period, third line center Joe Kittredge crashed into the corner of the Yale cage, broke it loose from its moorings, and upset Eli goalie Jimmy Burns, who fell and cracked his skull first against the meandering cage and then against the ice. Burns was revived quickly but was forced to quit the game...