Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanest of tricks is to tell a wealthy woman that the best way to clean her Oriental pearls is to swish them through boiling water. As the pearls heat they will lose their moonbeam lustre, may crack and the wealthy lady will grow frantic. Yet last week all Japan honored a short, stocky, crinkly-faced old man who had rolled up his kimono sleeves, seized a blunt spade and vigorously shoveled into a fiery furnace 720,000 of his best pearls. Within three minutes they turned to flaky ashes (crystallized lime...
...story is fundamentally serious. The daughter of the owner of the Show Heat falls in love with a river gambler the dashing Gaylord Reveual playing opposite him in one of the Show Boat's melodramas, the role she would like in real life. Their marriage the alternate prosperity and poverty of a gambler's life, the disillusionment and the separation follow quickly. Still in love they meet on the old "Show Boat" many years after, as it lies against an old Mississippi wharf in the moonlight...
Captain Foote and A. S. Pier '35, leader of last year's Freshman team, came in almost in a dead heat. E. F. Bowditch '35, another sophomore, followed about 50 yards behind them, closely pursued by Kenney, the sole Holy Cross man who placed in the first ten. Then came in order J. S. Hays '33, T. A. Robinson '34, E. S. Roys '35, John Wiggins '33, C. F. Woodard '35, and J. P. Scheu...
...Pacific island where the rain monotonously rains and the characters get crescendo jitters, Milestone gets no illusion. The characters are not damp to the skin. Their clothes do not stick clammily to their flanks. The food does not spoil. Green mold does not sprout on everything. The heat is not heat at all. Faces are unsweated. Appetites are healthv. The weather does not. as in the play, exhaust the characters of energy, ravel out their nerves. Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford) is no longer a harlot. She is a dull girl with an unfortunate past. Joan Crawford works hard but looks...
Through repeated blood tests it was found that, in spite of intense heat, the character of the blood remained fairly constant. The party was able to dispel the notion that cold water and meat are injurious in hot climates...