Word: iceboxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always sit with their children. This has the advantage of forming "uncle" relationships with countless moppets and of knowing, where in the house the toys are kept in case of a crisis. The fact that it also leads to a more thorough knowledge of the inside of the icebox is frowned upon by Holt who finds other jobs for such miscreants...
Walter Murch is a man who loves to work at night, painting floodlit still lifes in a shadowy studio. "Sometimes I'll knock off to raid the icebox," he says, "but when I'm working I'm liable to forget the time altogether. Between the emotional kick and the visual kick, I feel suspended...
...wrote Billie, "destined to be jealous of the entire Follies chorus and star list for the rest of my married life. Once when Flo came in at 5 a.m., after seeing Olive Thomas I suppose, I crept downstairs to find him raiding the icebox. Nearby was an enormous silver soup tureen and ladle. I seized the ladle and belabored him about the head and shoulders...
...before seen in the musty old palace. In two three-hour periods he managed to get in 151 individual interviews. (Grumbled one Ecuadorian: "I didn't have time even to greet him properly.") At 1:30 he passed up Ecuador's hearty midday meal, raided an office icebox for sandwiches and milk straight from one of his own farms, then got to work again. "What, no siesta?" exclaimed incredulous Ecuadorians...
...travel without his auburn-haired wife Mae, and listens to the family phonograph when other men go to nightclubs. When a meeting of the U.A.W. executive council keeps him in downtown Detroit after the dinner hour, he never fails to telephone, always tries to get home for an icebox snack instead of eating in a restaurant...