Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sterling, Cameron. ¶ The Washington baseball team, returning home with a string of nine straight victories, opened a double-header with Philadelphia before 30,000 fans. A few minutes after the first game began, Mr. Coolidge, with his wife and two sons, entered the Presidential box. It was terribly hot, but the Coolidges stayed to the end, standing in the lucky seventh and seeing the "Senators" win 5-0 and lose...
...that all. The Professor has also a memory-the "recollection of a strange, hot night, and small lips pressed against mine"-all this on an Overland Sleeper, some years agone. This memory goes with him, all through the story, like Stevenson's shadow; but when he meets the cause of it again, it apparently does not prevent him from seeing her married off to somebody else, without the flutter of an eyelash...
...dear boy!' But she was a gardenia, soft and lush and pale-not a very suitable flower when it came to resistance. She thought of her age, and of her husband's: Tony was young- fresh, strong, familiar young arms- clean, rugged young face-hot misguided youth!-It was too much for her. Sobbing under her breath, and half opening her thin lips, she pressed him against her as fiercely as she had pushed him away...
...town of Marietta, Ohio, is situated Marietta College. There last week the class of 1884 was holding its 40th reunion. Naturally since a big Convention was going on at Cleveland, there was some listening in by radio. Several members of '84 were at it. After a hot roll-call, the Republican nominee for Vice President was announced. It was one of those very Marietta '84s who were listening in. And he exclaimed picturesquely: "Well, I declare...
...quick, strong and clever; Pancho was quicker, stronger and cleverer. The Terror would rush in and shoot his fists out with a snappy jerk, but those fists seldom hit anything except thin air. The sullen brown boy was .like a flea on hot bricks. He fought with his body close to the floor, thus reducing his five ft. one inch to something under three ft. As the big Bud approached, Pancho would spring into the air, punching, pounding and pulverizing that unfortunate Terror from Terre Haute...