Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...burns. All day the building-a laboratory of Consolidated Film Industries-burned like a pine torch while a crowd watched and fire-engines drenched the studios on each side of it with water. When the fire was over no one for a while could open the red-hot doors of the vaults in which "master" films were stored...
...before the fire. About $2,000,000 worth of prints made from the stored negatives were burned up, but that was all. Assured that burning cinema film breeds no such dreadful gases as X-ray negatives did in the Cleveland Clinic last spring (TIME, May 27), searchers opened the hot door, entered the vaults, found the vintages of romance, adventure and claptrap, safe on their racks...
...donated by Albert Carl Lehman, Pittsburgh steel man, for the best purchasable painting. Painter Carena also won this prize, and his picture was bought by Donor Lehman. William J. Glackens, U. S. painter and illustrator, won the second prize ($1,000). His Bathers, Ile Adam, hot in color and thin in texture, is composed in a lively, anecdotal manner. Georges Dufrenoy. French conservative, won third prize ($500) for a richly colored, rather thickly painted still life of brocade, a vase, a fiddle. Paris painters, recalling Carnegie's previous recognition of more salient French painters (first prize, 1927, to Henri...
...price of $1.50. STRICTLY DISHONORABLE - ludicrous scherzo about a speakeasy and an innocent but willing beauty. THE CRIMINAL CODE-the laws of God are not on the statutes. JUNE MOON-magnificent satire on songwriting by Ring W. Lardner & George S. Kaufman. Musical: WHOOPEE, FOLLOW THRU, THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS. Best Pictures...
...hot was the trail of the lobbyists and so important was their reluctant testimony in relation to the pending tariff bill that the Senate committee even pondered the advisability of asking the Department of Justice for a detachment of Secret Service operatives to run down clues, to bring skulking lobbyists up out of their holes...