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Word: hot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Larry Hot-Theyrallhot, Miss Georgie Anne, Herr Wally von Dorf, Mr. Scintillating Splendid, and the three Zlunch brothers, Charlie, Jimmie and John--all members of the Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/20/1925 | See Source »

...kitchen in Kambridge. The members of the Club are assembled as a high court of inquisition. Sir Larry Hot-Theyrallhot presides, with a huge frankfurter for a gavel. The other members are sitting as a jury impaneled in a saucepan. Mr. Paymore stands before the bar of judgment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/20/1925 | See Source »

...landed at Nashville at 7:55 next morning, the story came out. Darkness had come earlier than expected. The General saw a 500-acre field of young corn and decided to come to earth. It was hard by the hamlet of Eva. One Mrs. B. F. Holland gave him hot biscuits, supper, country style; shelter for the night. It is not recorded whether he was set to watch the biscuits, whether, like that famed cottage guest, King Alfred, he allowed them to burn, was boxed on the ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Legend | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

After witnessing such varied performances masquerading under the guise of education, I could not but recall what the great philosopher, Odlaw-Hplar, once calmly asked of these same dashing young men: "So hot, my little sirs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Persian University Letter No. 4 | 5/12/1925 | See Source »

Added Loafer: "Entering, awed, . . . the bum was greeted by the strains, from a dormitory window, of Red Hot Mama. Doorsteps are found artificially worn down as if with the tread of the countless, and the tile of the roof has been especially prepared to gather dust and moss as rapidly as possible, to simulate the venerable. To this university, then, goes the prestige of having artfully intimated Oxford and Cambridge without copying directly. . . . Good old tears, good old spires, good old doorsteps (hastened up a bit), good old Oxford, good old quaint antique, old alma mater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critique | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

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