Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Devil's Island (Pauline Frederick). "A Drama of the White Hot Passions of the Isle of Lost Men" shrieks its press agent. Although the temperature of the passions has been grossly exaggerated, the the picture is commonplace enough to justifly the general tone of its advertising. The story concerns a group of virtuous people whom Fate forces into exile as prisoners of Devil's Island until a powerful friend happens to alter the situation a decade or two later...
Election day is far off. Not even the Hot-Stove League at Chubb's Corners has begun to determine the country's next political potluck. Yet this man doggedly continues his long-range prophesy...
...Firestone knows whereof he speaks, for his company has experimented on rubber-growing in many a strange hot clime, particularly down in Liberia where the Firestones have a 1,000,000-acre rubber concession, 10,000 acres of which have already been cleared and planted...
...faithfully reproduced, delicately shaded even at the violet (short wave) end. The inventor, Herr Professor Emil Wolff-Heide, was hailed by colleagues for having made "the greatest advance in photochemical research of the decade." The cinema public waited to see its evening's joy illuminated with radiant sunsets, hot colloquial color, ravishing flesh tints...
...Estimated to be 39,666,000 bu.; was 48,696,000 bu. last year; sold currently at $1.05 to $1.10 a bushel. Germany leads the world. The U. S. ranks third with one-fourth as much. North Dakota leads the U. S. Dry, hot weather has caused complaints...