Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quite as famed as cod or Cabots in Massachusetts are the feuds between John Francis Fitzgerald and James Michael Curley, sometime Boston mayors. Sons-of-the-system, hot-headed Hibernians, they have called each other most of the names that can be printed and all the unprintable ones. In Dorchester, where they mostly hold their quarrels and reunions, the very ash wagons creak with politics...
Last week, in the hot-packed dining room of Young's Hotel, Mr. Fitzgerald made his way to the rostrum where Mr. Curley was making a political oration. Mr. Curley paused, leaned over the rail and offered his hand. Mr. Fitzgerald seized it, shook it, mounted the platform, shook hands again. He began a speech, shook hands again. He continued speaking, shook hands again. He finished speaking, shook hands again. Mr. Fitzgerald then sang "Sweet Adeline" as he always does at emo- tional moments. Mr. Curley applauded. They shook hands (sixth time), for the cameras, and Boston's Democracy...
Since that day, the family has hewed marble. When Columbus set sail in a tiny caravel, a Fabbricotti was grunting, hoisting marble blocks. When Washington shivered at Valley Forge, a Fabbricotti sweated under a hot sun, polishing and smoothing white stone. When a World War became the echo for an assassin's shot, Fabbricottis heard not. They were quarrying marble...
...Gene can stand the hot air, he may make a good thing out of his sojourn in the forest of Arlen; that is, if he can see the forest for the trees. The English speaking world will rise up as a man to thank him if he debunks the pseudo-sophisticate as thoroughly as he triumphed over the fight game. But Mr. Tunney really deserves a rest and an opportunity for the sort of positive education he has hoped for. Anyone with his capacity for detail, coupled with a broad realization of underlying principles, should not waste his time taking...
George Bancroft is as good a heavy as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time. Von Sternberg is as good a director as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time. Baclanova is as good a Russian hot house plant as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time. "The Docks of New York" is as good an underworld picture as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time...