Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City Jews rushed to Frank's defense, raised funds to appeal his case in vain to the U. S. Supreme Court, charged Georgia with "railroading" him. This outside interest caused Georgians to lust for Frank's blood, guilty or innocent. Racial and sectional feeling was at fever heat...
...Majesty's Government estimated last week that $250,000 had been spent on official hospitality. With every Great Power spending more than $200,000 on its delegation, correspondents estimated the total conference cost last week at more than $5,000,000. Despite record London heat this summer the 2,000 delegates, experts and secretaries drank far less at the Conference's Long Bar than the optimistic concessionaires had expected. Chief Bartender "Jock" mournfully reported last week that they drank only 12,000 lager beers, only 3,000 gin fizzes, those being the most popular refreshers...
Died. Louise Closser Hale, 60, stage & cinema character actress, author of novels, short stories, travel memoirs; of heart failure following heat prostration; in Hollywood. Since her earliest successes in Candida (1903-04), Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1907-10), she, like her longtime friend Marie Dressier (see p. 23), usually portrayed old ladies. Unlike Marie Dressler's, her old ladies were usually gentle, whimsical, timid...
...race will be run from the Weeks Memorial foot-bridge upsteram to the Bost House, a course of about 300 yards. Blake Dennison, who is running the contest will award medals to the first and second placers in each final heat...
...signs, and the cool green lawns of Brattle Street. If there were no river, men would grow vicious with no place to walk, and they would sit in smoke-filled rooms and dart like angry wasps at each other buzzing invective in ever-changing patterns. Under the blanket of heat that descends over the steeples and towers of Cambridge in the afternoon, the Charles sleeps while agile youths flit on the mirrored surface like water-spiders...