Sentences with phrase «behind ice buckets»

Samuel Morse, for instance, inventor of the telegraph itself and the eponymous code, was eventually compensated for his intellectual property with the still nontrivial sum of $ 80,000 — this in an age when men holding court behind ice buckets in the corner booths of Manhattan nightclubs could comfortably brag about pulling in a cool $ 2,000 a year.

Jon Duschinsky, Conversation Farm CEO and one of the creators behind the Ice Bucket Challenge, talks about the need for making philanthropy profitable.

Not exact matches

(Reuters)- The Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral two years ago, raising hundreds of millions of dollars, has helped identify a new gene behind the neurodegenerative disease ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, researchers say.

It's good to ask for a bucket with ice, they've got em behind the bar.