Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mention solicitors for charitable causes and free sample dispensers, has kept Harvard Square as busy during the daytime as any reasonable student could wish. What to do with nights, however, and that boresome time later in the afternoon when it is either too cold to row, or too hot to play squash, has been rather a problem. The new moving-picture palace, as is clearly shown by the out of the prospective interior which appears on another page of the CRIMSON, seems especially created to bring new concepts of beauty into the prosaic life of the student. The courses...
...gone flying away with the pebble that burrowed in Goliath's brain; he swaggers and struts before the Lord; calamities confront his house. The music, from a gloating minor, rises steadily with blood-burning cymbals and a strump of drums; David dances, David prances, licks his red-hot lips and glances at Bathsheba. Absalom revolts, is killed. David rides in triumph through Jerusalem to Honegger's march for wind instruments...
...There is the story of a Manhattan cocktail, mixed of ingredients ranging from maraschino to sheep-dip, that stretched a U. S. Colonel on the barroom floor with blue flames and smoke issuing from between his toes. The Colonel took the recipe to Washington, D. C., named it "the hot buttered bun" in deference to the late Mr. Bryan and made his fortune selling it to Senators...
...Hot Tires. Monte Blue is a picture actor whose popularity a great many people have been at a loss to explain. Again it must be said that if you are one of those who like Monte Blue you will not mind this picture. He starts out with a phobia against motor cars and comes to know them. The old, old automobile chase ends up the picture in tiresomely popular fashion...
LIFE BEGINS TOMORROW-Guide de Verona (Translated by Isabel Grazebrook) - Button $2.00). The emotional and stylistic tumult of this book will quite dismay the normal reader. It is an attempt to plumb terrific abysses, to scale sheer pinnacles of human nature; and the author, dizzied by exertion, indulges a hot Latin temperament to inartistic excess. With strong physiologic emphasis, the story is told of a medical genius who attends his best friend, an engineering genius. He and the friend's wife are overpowered by love for each other, she becoming enceinte. Death of the husband will mean life...