Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Wilson D. Kenzie, 83, who on April 14, 1865, aged 21, saw President Abraham Lincoln assassinated, who later with a party of soldiers went in hot pursuit of Assassin John Wilkes Booth; at Baltimore...
Flames. At San Diego, Calif., Lieutenant Frank C. Sutton was looping the loop. At the top of the curve the plane puffed smoke; burst into flames. Lieutenant Sutton, hot, jumped; floated down under a parachute...
Most janitors are humble men. In their dingy cubbyholes, in their burrows beneath houses, they sit through the day quietly, watching the furnace fire or listening to the rumble of boilers in which cold water churns upward to dribble languidly out of faucets marked "hot." Their reading is confined to yesterday's newspapers; sleepy, happy woodchucks, they do not care to see their own names on the front pages. They are content...
Some janitors are exceptions. They spend the long days of their undifficult existence revolving and maturing hot thoughts of fame. One of them a fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 10) crawled to the front pages of U. S. newssheets by calling himself "organizer and president of the World League of Cities," by inviting all kinds of potentates to a convention in Boston where he lives. Another, who inhabited a Brooklyn cellar while he wrote poetry and played a stringed instrument, is on trial for butchering an old lady. Last week a third janitor came to a measure of fame...
...until there is scarleted froth on its bit irons. He goes to college, to war, to the devil; returns, as he says of one of his girls- healthy, clean, pretty. And his tribe dominates the landscape, roistering, riding hard. They have always succeeded, always dominated, always failed, in a hot-blooded cycle: "The Carew men have always taken what they wanted, where they wanted it," says fiercely indomitable Hildreth Carew, the present family leader. Eventually Bayliss, attracted no doubt by Elsa's passionate coolness towards him, desires her. "I don't want to fight with...