Word: thawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountains and the icier indifference of officialdom have for 13 years raised impassable barriers against a military highway from the U.S. to Alaska. Last week came a sudden thaw. From Ottawa (not Washington) the word went out that Alaska may get its highway at last...
...cold persists, with a few days of thaw here and there, through February and March. And then, rarely earlier than April, comes the big thaw, when the country is flooded with water that oozes from the earth, that runs with a merry sound, telling people and animals that the spring is near...
Torchsinger Helen Morgan, piano-sitting favorite of the dry days, had her spleen removed, lay gravely ill in a Chicago hospital. Evelyn Nesbit, stage beauty over whom Harry K. Thaw murdered Stanford White in 1906, turned up in a newspaper ad plugging a face-lifting process. Plugging for fat removal in an ad in the same paper appeared oldtime Shimmy Queen Gilda Gray. Los Angeles police who made a raid on an elaborate, white-tie gambling joint discovered that it was the onetime home of Billy Sunday, the late devil-fighting evangelist...
...silent films, went broke in Hollywood. . .The Safe Deposit and Trust Co. of Baltimore, guardians of eight-year-old Christopher Smith Reynolds, son of Torchsinger Libby Holman and the late, tobacco-wealthy Zachary Smith Reynolds, declared it cost them $6,944.44 a month to maintain the boy. . . Harry K. Thaw, 70, wealthy playboy slayer of Architect Stanford White in 1906, turned up in Saratoga at the races. . . Divorced at last were Lois De Fee (6 ft. 2 in.) and Billy Curtis (4 ft.), married as a publicity stunt...
Periodically reprinting the Constitution and leading sermons preached east of the Mississippi, the Transcript specialized in nostalgic essays. But editorially the Transcript was not always a gentleman. Foe of book and stage censorship, in a city holding the record for censorship, the Transcript fought Prohibition, reported the Thaw case in "blunt, ugly words which pseudo-fastidious contemporaries mincingly blue-penciled." Famed for his acid if polished gusto was the Transcript's music and drama critic, the late H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker. But it was rumored that he wrote his first drafts in Latin...