Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your rovin' red-hot mama...
...will replace Barbee in the box before the game is over in which case Norris will be sent to his position in the field, third base will probably be contested between Hunneman, who will start in the position and Nordberg who went through nine innings at Middlesex on the hot corner without an error...
...John A. Spencer of Revere, Mass., was a mill-hand in a Maine lumber camp. He worked with the night shift and part of his job was to keep the boiler simmering. The boiler had a rounded clean-out door; and when John heaped up a hot fire, this door would go Crick! outward, convex like a bubble. When the fire cooled down, Crack! would go the boiler door, back inward, concave like a saucer...
Within the Spencer Thermostat, there will be a little disc of flexible metal. When an iron or percolator gets too hot, crick! will go the disc, convex like a bubble, and cut off the current. When the iron cools, crack! concave like a saucer, and the current will go on again. Two metals in the disc contract and expand with the temperature, but unequally, causing the disc to warp, crick . . . crack...
...Papers of the Hearst and Chicago Tribune persuasion): "Hot stuff! Sensational! Lay it on thick; run it every day! Great headlines! Maybe it isn't the best way of reforming the world, but for the present it's the best way to sell lots of newspapers." ¶(Gum-chewers'sheetlets): "Meat! Meat for us! Get the pictures, pictures, pictures! But of course we can't keep Chapman on the front page very long. There'll be a dozen crimes as good tomorrow...