Word: thawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor arithmetic of a janitor who thought it had already come and took the day off yesterday, along with the steam in the radiator, changed his mind on that score. It took every one of the hitherto purely ornamental logs in his fire-place to thaw out his typewriter enough to use, so before it solidifies again he hastens to add that any such comments are hereby postponed to a later and he hopes not too much later, date...
...especially in New England and the Northwest, dog-racing is becoming popular like all other winter sports. Last week Edward P. Clark won the 220-mile Berlin to Boston race, which stopped at Lowell, Mass., when a thaw spoiled the snow on the road to Boston. At the March winter carnival in The Pas, Man., will be revived the derby from The Pas to Flin Flo and back, with a $2,000 first prize and Emil St. Goddard, present world's champion, an entrant...
...most famed case: prosecution of Bon Vivant Harry K. Thaw for murdering Bon Vivant Architect Stanford White...
Died. Howard W. Nesbit, 41, Bronx salesman, brother of famed Evelyn Nesbit, Harlem cabaret hostess, onetime wife of Harry K. Thaw; from suicide by hanging; in The Bronx...
Apartments, Manhattan, last March, six months before his lease was up. The landlord brought suit to collect rent for the balance of the lease. Basso Gustafson, last week in court, thundered that he had two good reasons for moving out: 1) Killer Harry K. Thaw was his neighbor, 2) patrol wagons at the door and policemen riding in the apartment's elevators were annoying, especially when they came to arrest disorderly women. Mrs. Sinclair Lewis (née Dorothy Thompson) last week accused Theodore (American Tragedy') Dreiser of plagiarism. She had written an able book entitled...