Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decorous 1840's when the sparkling Mr. Atkinson was compelling the hot-house plants of London's selectest society to swoon on sofas every evening and releasing for literature the troubled unconscious of Harriet Martinean, the myth was current that Hypnosis called for a handsome, muscular Personality with electric eyes; a veritable storage battery of animal magnetism. After the Radio experiments of the other night in Boston, Personality dwindles to condensite. If the talking machine companies should see the point, the gentle art of falling asleep might drive out morphine and gin as a method for dodging the World crisis...
...future occurrences of such sort. We feel merely that the publicity they have received has magnified their importance, and provided manna for alarmists. And it is all because the man in the street is not interested in French requirements or the Tutorial system, but a student suicide is hot stuff, and merely confirms his ideas of college as a haven of hip flasks, atheism, and general immorality...
Wealth seemed to shimmer in the hot sunshine that poured last week upon a Union Jack unfurled from a tall staff at Grasfontein, South Africa...
Baldwin, steady country squire and ironmaster; Chamberlain, austerely Victorian Birmingham politician; Churchill, hot-head of a half-dozen simultaneous careers; Joynson-Hicks, plus royaliste que le roi; Amery, implacable Imperialist; Birkenhead, a lawyer, brilliant, fashionable, yet most profound: these are Britain...
...figure of a great British Colonial Secretary, recently dipped in hot tea and then in scalding coffee, brooded, last week, over the lobby of the House of Commons. By tea and coffee this blatantly brand new statue of the late famed Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1911) had been toned down to a decorous brown patina. Right Honorable Members looked up at "Joe" Chamberlain, the redoubtable right hand man of the great Gladstone; then they drifted from the Lobby into the Chamber, and there heard "Joe's" son, Sir Austen Chamberlain read an amazing tissue of threats and imprecations against Soviet...