Why is "fridge" spelled with a "d" when "refrigerator" is not?

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?

During the industrial age, what was one important way businesses told consumers about new products? through phonographs through telephones through telegraphs through catalogues

When mrs. jameson says "it (the desert) won't leave you cold," what does she mean?