Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confident Romans cooled themselves amid last week's heat with Italy's newly named "Ethiopia Ice Cream"-chocolate with pistachio nuts. Even Benito Mussolini's most scornful critics, Europe's Socialist and Communist Press, admitted that he has now fired his people with exultant zeal for conquering Ethiopia, plus hopes of absorbing Austria as a later move to ''restore the Universality of Rome!" In the general rush to enlist now sweeping Italy's languid, aristocratic youth even the Dictator's baby-faced son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, last week planned...
Steamy Twaddlers Sirs: Three cheers for TIME'S refusal to shed crocodile tears over the terrific heat in Washington [TIME, July 29]. After reading daily in newspapers that our legislators are lying exhausted in their air-cooled chambers and can do nothing but drink lemonade and fan themselves, it is refreshing to those of us who are spared from such a terrible fate to know that TIME is not overcome by the heat. If our steaming Representatives would cease their Intellectual twaddle and their blowing off of hot air, they could finish their business and give...
...late the Panama American's stormy crusading publisher, Nelson Rounsevell, has been enraging U. S. Army officers in the Canal Zone's Fort Clayton by headlining stories to the effect that merciless discipline and overwork in tropical heat have driven enlisted men to smoking narcotic marijuana cigarets, caused four of them to commit suicide. An Army investigation whitewashed officers. Last week Rounsevell was arrested on five criminal libel warrants, sworn out by topnotch U. S. Army officers in the Canal Zone. Bail...
...Chicago westbound on his vacation, Postmaster General Farley paused to say a kind word for the poor heat-bedeviled bachelor in the White House: "The President is in astonishingly good health but, like all the rest of us who have to endure the sodden heat of Washington, he is entitled to get peevish at times...
Improving with age, El Lagarto won the Gold Cup at Detroit in 1933 with a heat record of 60.866 m. p. h. and then went on to win the two other major motorboat races of that year. Last year on Lake George, where, by the conditions of the race which gives the holder of the Cup the right to name the course, Driver Reis had the race run, she had a close call before she beat Delphine IV. Last month Driver Reis installed a new Miller motor. A few days before the race, a broken connecting rod turned this into...