Word: heated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will insist upon clearance for their own boats to enable them to check and control their own people, the Canadian Government is quite ready to consider any further reasonable measure of co-operation with them." Minister Euler said two other things that tended to increase the heat in already superheated Washington: 1) "Practically 100% of the rum runners are American citizens who ply their trade in U. S. boats": 2) "Only 2% to 5% of the liquor in the U. S. comes from Canada." Commissioner of Prohibition James M. Doran answered statement No.1: "No one is in a position...
...crimes invented during the British drought included, "Washing an automobile with drinking water," for which offense a London truckman was fined ?i. When driving rainstorms finally burst over Southern England and Northern France, the atmosphere was so surcharged with heat that the rain fell warm and muggy...
...sizzling Paris heat at last proved too much for even grizzly-bearded M. Raymond Poin-caré. He, "Lion of Lorraine," President of France during the War and for 35 months past her indomitable Prime Minister, will be on the 20th of next month 69 years old. In the course of the present debt debate (TIME, July 22), he had addressed the Chamber for a total of more than 37 hours (three or four hours daily) reading every word from sheets covered with his neat, almost microscopic handwriting. Result: the strain gave him a high "gastric fever," his physician last...
...Hypochondriac Proust used to wear a long nightgown, sweaters, mufflers, stockings, gloves, a nightcap. He lived on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, in a cork-lined attic room. His curtains were drawn against the tree-dust he found obnoxious. The smell of perfumes, flowers, steam heat, oppressed him unbearably. Only at 3 a.m., when breathing was easiest for his asthma, would he venture into the street. In a drawing-room he would not doff his fur-lined coat. Once someone entered his house from several flights below, leaving the street-door ajar. Quavered Proust: "Shut that door!"-and died. Author...
...Waves of heat rolled out over the park. Firemen rushed toward the house. Bodies began dropping like torches from the upper stories. Shrieks sounded from the audience, from the building. Frantic women lunged toward the blaze. A real cigaret had lit a real fire in the gasoline-soaked building too soon. Fourteen "actors" died...