Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were a half-million people in the streets. It was fun. Hot oysters and cold bottles. "Promiscuous masking," said the official program. It was a fine old tradition. The gentility rules the city. Their clubs-Comus (the oldest), Atlanteans, Momus, Proteus, Twelfth Night, Mystics, Druids-gave balls and there was much whispering as to whether little Miss Such-&-Such got any invitations. Then there was the Queen, chosen more for her social graces than for Atlantic City qualifications. This year she was Miss Betty Watson, daughter of Banker Eli T. Watson, last year...
...Hot Pan. The adventurous and inquisitive Provincetown Playhouse tucked darkly away in downtown Manhattan has made another rabid experiment. One Michael Swift, distressed at many phases of U. S. life, particularly at the craze for gold, has collected his complaints in a play. He sets it in the California gold rush days and much of it occurs in a boisterous bar. Gold is discovered under the floor. There is a gold rush. Bright scarlet women circulate suggestively. Men howl for whiskey. There is no pretense at connected story. Mr. Swift is seemingly as much at war with dramatic forms...
...They were cathode rays and they behaved in some ways like radium, soon after to be discovered by the Curies. They made the vacuum tube glow with-brilliant fluorescence. If a piece of metal were sealed in the tube, in the path of the rays, the metal became very hot. It also cast a sharp shadow on the wall of the tube. The Crookes tube, refined in mechanism, is the common x-ray tube of today, useful to physicists, metallurgists, biologists, doctors, dentists. (In 1895 the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen discovered the penetrating powers of the rays...
...Eastman Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark., Dutch Henry, southpaw pitcher of the New York Giants, went to a hotel dance in a tuxedo and stiff shirt while his teammates, standing in the doorway, watched...
...urge. But today the frontier has disappeared, the Indians are in sideshows or oil fields, the cowboys are in dude ranches or vaudeville. What does Mr. Average Citizen do to relieve his tension? He goes exploring in his automobile, knowing perfectly well that he will see familiar filling stations, hot dogs, kewpie dolls, cigaret signboards, and a thousand explor ers who will say with him: "Well, the traffic sure is heavy" Perhaps he stalks into a drugstore bar on the way home, puts his foot on the rail, demands a double-chocolate-marshmallow-pecan sundae and a chicken-liver sandwich...