Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Otto Kahn standing at attention; Mr. John D. Rockefeller burning his tongue with hot milk...
...English divorce laws are strict; in Italy there is no divorce; but when Gabriele d'Annunzio started to create a Paradise on the Adriatic in 1919, he decided that Fiume's code should be equipped with steam-heat, plumbing and hot water night and day. Divorce was blissfully easy. Early this year, Lady Marconi quieted two years of rumors of divorce by establishing a technical residence at Fiume and suing her husband, who was guilty of incompatibility of temper...
...Missolonghi is a hot, dusty little fishing hamlet on the north of the Gulf of Corinth. It was there that Byron died during the dramatic defense against the overwhelming forces of Osman Pasha, a defense that lasted two yeart and fired the imagination of all Europe...
...getting too old for letter-writing." There is another, about a Lord who was "wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice; he was, in fact, so wealthy that Mr. Otto Kahn stood at attention when speaking to him and Mr. John D. Rockefeller burnt his tongue with his hot milk at the mere mention of his name." According to his publishers, Author Arlen, aged 25, "likes dancing and baccarat and is a tournament tennis player." He summers between Deauville and Biarritz, winters on the Riviera, springs in Venice, autumns in Mayfair...
...Neill takes matrimony drastically between thumb and forefinger and turns it over for inspection, shaking it rather roughly. He finds a union between two vivid temperaments to be unsuccessful. He concludes that, in the process of fusing, these two personalities are liable to flare up into a white hot flame that may consume them both...