Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four hundred years ago, any, bold spirit who broached the possibilities of thought transference would have been immediately fried in oil or pleasantly stimulated, perhaps, with red hot pincers. Times change, however. Galileo, in an effort to keep his self respect without losing his head, was forced to murmur his truths to himself in a defliant which per; but when the modern student can learn without a quiver that a new universe has been discovered from which light takes a million years to travel to the earth, it is safe to assert that the world is becoming shock-proof...
...dinner and a dance will accompany each of the performances in Hot Springs, Va. The Hasty Pudding Graduates of New York are giving a dance at the Plaza after the matinee on April 19. Dinners for the cast will be numerous during the performances in Cambridge and the graduates are planning a supper on the stage of the Flue Arts Theatre after the last performance in Boston, which is scheduled for April...
...began laying the foundation for its investigation. It granted to counsel for the Attorney General the right to cross-examine witnesses before it, within limits, and to present names of witnesses whom, at its discretion, the Committee might subpoena. When the time comes, the hearings will doubtless be hot...
...Chicago's Archbishop died. Delegations of Poles posted hot-haste to Rome to urge one of their good race for the office. Delegations of Germans likewise. Said the Irish: "Give us no foreigners, but an Irishman!" The Pope chose Mundelein. To Chicago he went His position was "difficult." At a welcoming banquet 150 prominent citizens were poisoned by the soup. At the next banquet, the new Archbishop drank the soup first. And ever since he has grown, quietly, in the respect of a strident community. No archdiocese is more efficiently run. Its head has never committed a public blunder...
Once upon a time there were three bears-a papa bear, a mama bear and a baby bear. Papa bear liked his porridge very, very hot. Mama bear liked her porridge "just hot." Baby bear liked his porridge only warm. But it was quite impossible for cook to make three kinds of porridge every morning. So cook made up a batch of porridge that was the same temperature as if she had made some veryvery hot porridge, some just-hot porridge, some only-warm porridge, and mixed them together. Papa bear grumbled that it wasn't right. Mama bear...