Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chickens are delivered in a frozen state in "New York dress," which leaves the entrails still inside the fowls. After arrival at the kitchen, the chickens are stored in freezers. The night before they are to be served they are removed from the freezers and left on tables to thaw through the night. The chickens are not removed from the tables until the next morning, when workers eviscerate and prepare them...
...cultural phenomenon, Russian Jews). Their names: Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Nathan Milstein, Isaac Stern and (of Russian parents) Yehudi Menuhin. This week, for the first time, U.S. audiences had a chance to compare Oistrakh in person with the other violin masters. For, during Geneva's temporary thaw in the cold war, Moscow had decided to allow its most famous musical performer to come...
...world came to an end when Evelyn wanted White to marry her. He sent her to finishing school instead, but before the term was out, Evelyn flounced off to Europe with a young Pittsburgh millionaire named Harry Kendall Thaw. It was a rough trip. Thaw was a mother's darling who had been turned loose on cafe society with too many marbles ($80,000 a year) in his pocket and not enough in his head. He was given to euphoric grandeurs-he once threw a $50,000 party for some French theater people-and sadistic glooms. With Evelyn...
...trial was perhaps the most sensational of its kind that the century has produced. The prosecution was conducted by District Attorney William Travers Jerome, relative of Winston Churchill's. "He struck," cried Thaw's lawyer (who based his defense on "the unwritten law"), "for the purity of the home ... of American womanhood." When Evelyn came to court, dressed like an innocent schoolgirl in Fauntleroy collar and demure chapeau, crowds almost killed her with kindness, and the riot squad was rushed to the scene. The first trial ended in a hung jury, but in the second, Thaw was acquitted...
...sent to Matteawan asylum, and for the next 16 years was in and out of confinement, once after a sexual assault on a 19-year-old boy. He died of a heart attack in 1947. Evelyn (who got very little of Thaw's money until his death, when he left her $10,000) drifted from big vaudeville circuits into the little "speaks," and from there into a series of petty failures-a tea room, a cosmetic business-that were interspersed with two attempts at suicide. Now 70, she has recently been teaching ceramics in Los Angeles...