Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hour after hour the hard clay road bastinadoed their blistering feet. Dutch maids and matrons skimmed by on bicycles-made marching seem the harder. As the blazing unclouded sun poured down, scowls gathered and perspiration trickled slimily upon hot flesh. Only one vision of relief loomed. BEER! At Assen there would be beer...
Author Hergesheimer is repeatedly accused of vulgarity, never of slack workmanship. Hot color, detail as meticulously perfect as a showgirl's makeup, are his special contribution to serious letters. Sometimes a deep pulse of life makes itself felt, sometimes an incomparable atmosphere passes over the hard surfaces, as in Java Head and The Three Black Pennys. But mostly, labor faithfully though he obviously does, Author Hergesheimer remains a short-range camera, loaded with a thick film. "No Grifolifes...
...must have come to him from across the Bosporus. He writes out of the life he has led, chiefly here around one Stavro sly peddler of drink at fairs, upon whose sensitive nature, to the point of perversion, have been wreaked the brutal inheritance of an ancient jumble of hot, primitive races Stavro relates the tragedy of his marriage, thwarted by impotence; the kidnaping of his madcap sister Kyra by a Turkish harem procurer; some of his wanderings from the Danube to Damascus, in search of love and friendship They are not stories for the general public, which takes unkindly...
...Homestead, Hot Springs...
...greatest champion* before him. More than that, he knows that the confidence of his countrymen rests in his prowess, for he opposes a man from another nation. Now the fashion of fighting of these two champions differs like their races. The stranger, who comes of a people hot, delicate and windy, has schooled his natural haste into precision. His eye is cool; his strokes are like insults uttered in a careful voice. But the man of legend is a Jack of a different silk. Bleak in person and in countenance, sprung of a thin and righteous line of thee...