"He's got ice water in his veins!" (1906?)

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ICE WATER IN + VEINS--28,000 Google hits
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I was watching NCAA basketball. A player was shooting free throws at the  end
of the game. The announcer said the usual cringe-inducing cliche.
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"He's got ice water in his veins."
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He's got ice water in his veins? So the guy shooting free throws is dead? A
freak of nature?
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(PROQUEST)
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_GEORGE  ADE IN EGYPT; Dashing Up The Nile With Mr Peasley And Others _
(http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=402952041&SrchMode=1&sid=3&Fmt=10&VInst=
PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1142730269&clientId=65882)
George Ade. Chicago Daily Tribune  (1872-1963). Chicago, Ill.: May 6, 1906.
p. F1 (1 page)
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(Somewhere here--ed.)
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_SAVANNAH  RACING MAD; Old City Is Now Magnet for Turfmen of East. HAS
"CAUGHT ON" AS A  SPORT Small Field of Contestants in Each Race and Muddy Track
Matters Little to  Southerners, Who Turn Out to Number of 3,000 and Bet to Their
Hearts' Con- tent  -- Crave for Excitement. _
(http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=2&did=255805152&SrchMode=1&sid=3&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName
=HNP&TS=1142730269&clientId=65882)
Special to The Washington  Post.. The Washington Post. Dec 28, 1908. p. 8 (1
page)
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The contests were so well fought out that only a man with ice water in his
veins instead of good red blood could refrain from giving way to the enthusiasm
 of the moment and yelling at the top of his lungs for his favorite.
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     _Middletown Daily Times_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=NUCC4daB2aKKID/6NLMW2t0YzUxpnahk5pWPBZiUdNoRXo9KEVIjaw==)  _Wednesday,
January 03, 1894_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="ice+water+in+his+veins"+AND+date:1894-01-03)  _Middletown,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="ice+water+in+his+veins"+AND+cityid:18671+AND+stateid:67
+AND+range:1759-1921)   _New  York_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="ice+water+in+his+veins"+AND+stateid:67+AND+range:1759-1921)
......  crouchINg behINd HIS barley bags, felt HIS  blood turn to ICE WATER IN HIS
veINs  when, with ... ..

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