Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prospect was tempting: "After parking her car with thousands of others in the roomy rooftop garage, the young housewife left her baby with a nurse in the playground. Strolling along the broad canopied walks and through the buildings, she stopped to watch the skaters in the rink, glancing now & then at the glittering dance hall, the glass-brick hotel, the handsome bus terminal, the quiet professional building where she could see hospital patients sitting at the windows. The moving sidewalks carried her past some hundred air-conditioned shops...
Fresh Beer, Stale Gags. There were bull sessions everywhere and at all hours, and 75 kegs of beer to keep them afloat. There were a few more formal meetings of minds: in Baker Rink, Physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, who wrote the War Department's Smyth Report, ran a forum on atomic energy. But most of the talk was the chitchat of old grads-who was doing what, and where, and to whom; what had happened to so-and-so; the off-color jokes, the old, corny gags. The commonest initial emotion was embarrassment-the desperate stab at a classmate...
...banquet in Baker Rink, the Class of '26 gave the University $150,000. And world-weary Princetonians of the Class of 1921 wistfully toasted the memory of the finest escapist of them all, Classmate Richard Halliburton, lost at sea seven years ago as he followed his Royal Road to Romance. Old grads glowing too gloriously were put to bed by 500 helpful undergrads-some in sheetless cots lent by Red Cross Disaster Relief...
Over the ice and through the superheated plot, the picture's heaviest load is lugged by a svelte, sultry, English-born skater who bills herself professionally as Belita (real name: Belita Gladys Lyne Jepson-Turner). Playing the star of an elaborate rink called the Ice Gardens, and wife of the owner, Belita cuts as fancy a figure on a bedroom set as she does on ice. Her problem is to keep a chilly eye on Wolf Barry Sullivan, a criminally aggressive peanut hawker at the Gardens who covets both his boss's business investment and home life...
More difficult opposition than the Tigers, who have only just resumed hockey after three years of inactivity and who have no indoor rink on which to practice, will be provided on Saturday evening by Yale, when the Crimson treks down to New Haven. The Elis have had formal hockey all through the war, and are rated along with Dartmouth as one of the top teams in the East...