Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excused for misnaming the trophy because of the fact that for 13 years the bronze has rarely left the precincts of the Detroit Yacht Club where it is housed during Gar Wood's speed monarchy. The last time the plaque saw open daylight was before the second heat of the Harmsworth in 1931, after Kaye Don had worsted Wood in the first trial. Race officials were so confident that Gar's eleven-year supremacy was about to end that they had the trophy brought down to the judges' stand prior to the second heat. A few moments...
...Postmaster General James Aloysius, whose brother Thomas L. is Sheriff of Rockland County, N. Y. Last week Rockland County's Sheriff Farley went down to the basement of his jail, turned off the heat in the adjacent County Building because the County Board had fired seven of his jail janitors...
...athletic shirts. The players took a couple of turns around the field to limber up and then were given a short drill on a defense against passes. Following this the teams lined up and went through a signal drill. A scrimmage had been on the schedule but the heat forced the squad to strip...
...DuPrene, derived from chloroprene, is the synthetic rubber which du Pont is beginning to exploit. DuPrene, according to the company, has "approximately the same tensile strength as that of natural rubber, but it stretches further before breaking. It is less affected than is natural rubber by sunlight, oils, acids, heat. . . . DuPrene is considerably more expensive than natural rubber. . . . DuPrene tires will be little if any better than rubber tires, but DuPrene should be more suitable for the cover of a conveyor belt handling hot abrasive materials...
...Heat Lightning (by George Abbott & Leon Abrams; Abbott & Dunning, producers). George Abbott can collaborate on good plays (Broadway, Coquette) as well as bad ones (Lilly Turner). His current production, neither good nor bad, is laid in a filling station on the edge of a U. S. desert. Peddling gas and oil to itinerant Mexicans, Reno divorcers, old folks on their way to die in the elephant valley of California, is the business of Olga (Jean Dixon, minus the acerbity so brilliantly displayed in Once in a Lifetime) and her young sister Myra. Surprised and shocked is Olga when her sinister...