Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn, one Moses Anderson, Negro idler, strolled in the spring sunshine, responded vocally to the lambent weather by yodelling a popular song. Children in a nearby public school heard, through the open window, the syncopated quaverings, began to chant the words: Red Hot Mamma.* Teachers besought silence. Disorder continued. Idler Anderson was arrested, charged with committing a public nuisance. Indignant, he asked that his voice be given a hearing. Policemen, magistrate, court officials, listened to the strains of Red Hot Mamma, sentenced Anderson to the workhouse...
Coach Mahan has announced another shift in the Crimson line-up, less than two weeks before the Yale series. The new arrangement, which will go into effect this afternoon, will see Zarakov restored to his old place at the hot corner, with Keene, late of the Seconds, filling Howard's place at shortstop. This change is looked upon by Crimson baseball followers as indicating not so much that Zarakov is appreciably better at third than he is at short as that there is no one else on the squad capable of holding down the seek adequately...
...Phillips Brooks House hand-book for Freshmen, excellent though it is in design and execution, gives no hints for hot weather. In extreme cases, where a cool retreat in which to study is imperative, the harassed undergraduate may take a tip from the Irish ditch digger's wife, who replied, when taxed by her husband for not preparing a more elaborate supper: "What! Me slave over a hot stove and you working in your nice cool sewer...
...showers at strategic intervals are not without their good effect, but in the feverish heat of preparing for examinations all that the studious sufferer can do is grin and bear it. That and acquire a shot-gun to be used on the self-appointed humorist who says: "Is it hot enough...