Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House pressroom a telephone jangled disturbingly. Over the wire came a warning voice: "You guys be ready for a hot story at 2 o'clock." Five minutes later newsmen, looking across the White House lawn, observed a strange movement out on Pennsylvania Avenue. They hurried out to find 35 very young men and women and one big Negro marching solemnly up and down under the leafless trees. Behind them flocked a curious crowd. With difficulty their youthful hands held aloft heavy placards...
Musical: THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, A WONDERFUL NIGHT (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus score), BITTER SWEET, SONS O' GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN...
...inelasticity of rubber is useful-in motor car tires, bumpers, airplane shock absorber cords-because it absorbs considerable of the energy which stretches it and transforms that absorbed energy into heat. That is why a continually flexing, moving tire is hot. Pull (not slide) a rubber band between closed lips. The lips can feel the heat. Pull (not slide) a piece of steel similarly (a machine is necessary), the steel will cool...
...felt other than beaver, a good inch thick, covering the shoulders and back completely, and coming well over the horse's crupper; it was also well turned up in front and at the sides, so that one had no need of a cloak against the rain, and in hot weather it was as good as a little house...
...with Voltaire; in Berlin he was offered a mastership in a boys' school by Frederick the Great. When he was finally allowed to return to Venice, his money gone and credit dwindling, he became a spy for the Inquisition; congenitally unable to toe the line, he got into hot water with his holy employers and had to leave Venice once more. Thence his decline was rapid: still a spy (though now on a commission basis, no longer salaried), he fell even lower, and died an obscure literary hack, "prolific writer of forgotten novels, libellous pamphlets, histories, poems, biographies...