Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spain. "Oh, please don't set the piano on fire!" is heard now in every dance or recreation hall where Spaniards gather to drink hot milk and coffee, to sip gravely a green or golden chartreuse, to listen while supple dancers click their castanets, or to glide through sinuous tangos...
There were a marble bust and a slim bather spun in clay by Barbara Herbert of Manhattan, first U. S. sculptress ever admitted to the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Rosa Bonheur's pupil, Anna Klumpke of California, showed a hot-colored flower study. Young George Hill, who preserves what he can of the solitude and fresh air of his native northern Michigan by living in one of the loftiest studios on the Boulevard de Montparnasse, received fresh compliments for his clear, restful "Tea on a Balcony...
Dengue fever is a scourge of hot climates. When, five years ago, it swept across the southern states from Texas to Georgia, 2,000,000 cases were reported. It is always prevalent in the Philippines. Could dengue be carried by the Aedes egypti, the mosquito against whose whining depredations Dr. Walter S. Reed won his famous "yellow fever victory" a quarter of a century ago? Medical officers asked, like Dr. Reed, for volunteers; 75 soldiers sent in their names, were exposed to the mosquito, developed dengue. That was a year ago. Now, as a result of that experiment, dengue cases...
...winning the cruelest of all races, wherein strong heart and mickle courage are the fundamental prerequisites -the Marathon. And trailing behind the winner Clarence De Mar jogged blister-footed Olympic champion Albin Stenroos, Finn, who led De Mar by two places in the 1924 competitions- on that terrifically hot day the racers wilted like flies along the roadside. And behind him thumped other runners who thought De Mar was a has-been. The typesetter from Melrose, Mass., began his marathonic career at Boston in 1911; won two years in succession...
When, in 1922, he announced his entry in the Marathon* of that year, wiseacres ridiculed: "Out of competition nearly eleven years . . . This race is too hot for antiques!" But veteran Clarence De Mar won, has been winning with ironic consistency ever since. It is a strange anomaly that several aged Marathoners are still in competition; a 58-year-old finished the Philadelphia grind...