Word: heated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotbox, the Hardy crew found that the women did not begin to perspire until the temperature of their skins was two degrees higher than "the threshold of sweating" in the men. This holding back is due to a more flexible metabolism in women, which simply slows down their internal heat production in hot weather...
...them to stand cold better than men-"a thicker insulating layer of superficial tissue" (vulgar translation: blubber). This natural protection enables a naked woman to feel no colder in a cool room than a man with a light suit of clothes on.* Result of these superior adaptations both to heat and to cold is that the temperature range of the "comfort zone" is twice as wide for women...
...mentioning the performance itself, of course, remarks might be passed on about the remarkable costuming, about the Savannah heat-wave, Rose Brown, whose Kaisha was vaguely reminiscent of Josephine Baker, but it's all quite futile. The show belongs to the great Bojangles. The rest of the cast can only be thankful that they have a chance to do something in the first act, for when Robinson comes on in the second, he takes over and all the rest of the cast can do is sit back and shrug. It would be nice to bounce one's grand-children...
With such diverting thoughts, the Wolfs prisoners did not complain of the tropic heat that turned their filthy prison into a fetid Turkish bath, nor of their grim diet, nor of the dhobie itch and typhus brought aboard by Japanese prisoners, nor even of scurvy, which began to rot them on the voyage home, through a hurricane that left the Wolf leaking 40 tons of water an hour, through the ice-jammed Arctic and the dreaded North Sea blockade. Eventually they felt for Captain Nerger the respectful gratitude due a hero who had saved their lives...
...maintenance men claimed that if the heat had been intense enough the bullets would have exploded, demolishing the north wall of Hollis to say nothing of the occupant of Hollis...