Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money earned in two years by Whiz Bang, Publisher Fawcett launched upon a largely successful series of publishing ventures, assisted by his brothers Roscoe and (the late) Harvey. The first, True Confessions, began by giving actual confessions of criminals and other big figures in the news (e.g. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw), but later turned to the usual anonymous-girl-gone-wrong narrative. At its sexiest stage it claimed 400,000 circulation, but a mistaken (and temporary) effort to "clean it up" under the name of Fawcett's nearly ruined the book. It is doing well again (230,000). Judge...
...Roosevelt (who she says gave her "a magnificent set of Haviland china"), the late Lord Kitchener (who she says gave her "a cross between a yacht and a houseboat"), King Edward VII of Britain, Herbert Hoover, King Leopold of the Belgians, and such celebrities as Fanny Ward, Harry Kendall Thaw, Morris Gest. Once she started from London to go around the world "by picking up my traveling and hotel expenses as I went," got as far as Japan, then lost the bet which started her journey by marrying. Sample of that trip: "I was wearing a solitaire diamond . . . slipping...
...Alley wrote a song about the Harry K. Thaw case: "Just because he's a millionaire, everybody's willing to treat him unfair...
...wired a report to the War Department. Excerpts: "RICHEST GOLD STRIKE IN HISTORY THIS CAMP. . . . EVERY MAN IN WHOLE VICINITY THAT CAN GET TRANSPORTATION . . . IS GOING OR GONE. . . . TEMPERATURE STILL 40 BELOW ZERO. BROKE PIECES FROM GROUND VARIOUS SECTIONS; HELD PAN WITH DIRT INTO TUB OF BOILING WATER TO THAW OUT, THEN PANNED A BUSHEL, FINDING ABOUT $2.96 WORTH FINE-LOOKING WASHED GOLD IN TWO PANS. . . . NEXT MORNING STAKED CLAIMS ON GROUND OVERLOOKED BY OTHERS. . . . HOTELS CROWDED WITH STAMPEDERS HEADED FOR NEW STRIKE...
...went in Winnipeg, you saw the curlers leaving one rink, on their way to another. Many of them were elderly men, all serious, carrying long brooms and heavy sweaters; they looked up at the sky, which was tranquil, and said gloomily that it might bring baugh ice, meaning a thaw...