Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then came merciful periods of stupor, some natural, some induced by morphine. To keep the great heart beating, Sister Theoneste injected hot camphorated oil. When he coughed and choked she gave a little oxygen...
...Baden bankers did what they could to make their signatures imposing. They had no Great Seal. They could not use the seals of their own banks, sacred to commerce. But the smart Chicagoan secretary of the conference, Dr. Lichtenstein, had a watchcharm seal: "W. L." Pressing this upon a hot red splotch of wax, Mr. Lichtenstein* sealed with humorous pomposity a business paper more vital than many a treaty. In effect it is the blueprint design for a giant cash register through which Germany will pay some nine billion-dollars in Reparations over 58 years...
Musical: FOLLOW THRU, THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, BITTERSWEET, A WONDERFUL NIGHT (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus?great score, not much else...
Humor and passion do not go together. The revolutionary passion in Russia, cooling, is beginning to allow such fermentation as The Embezzlers. In an oblique manner Comrade Kataev makes fun of Soviet officialdom, hints that a hot time in the old town may still be had, and at government expense. But chiefly he reassures us that the Russian has not lost his old talent of being able to laugh at himself. The Embezzlers, neither Communist nor anti-Communist propaganda, is funny, and true to more than Russian life...
Only three years ago, U. S. tobacco advertisers felt that, though every one knew women were smoking, to allow a woman in the unholy precincts of a cigaret advertisement would be to affront U. S. womanhood. But tobacco competition grew hot. One by one the cigaret-makers began introducing women in their advertisements. At first it was just a woman's arm and hand holding a cigaret (Marlboro). Then it was women present, though not smoking, at smoking bouts. When a Chesterfield advertisement appeared in which an entrancing female was made to say, "Blow some my way," it seemed...