Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scorching sun beat from a hot October sky on opening games. Players were carried from fields uninjured; helpless with heat exhaustion. Larger universities used three and four teams to relieve the strain; small colleges with little squads saw their men suffer far more than they will from any snow storms of November...
...highest score of early games was made by Temple (Philadelphia university of 6,000 students) which ripped Blue Ridge to ribbons, 110-0. Blue Ridge is a tiny Maryland institution; enrollment about 180, including girls. So hot was the Philadelphia afternoon that final periods were shortened to 5 minutes. Blue Ridge ran out of substitutes; borrowed three from Temple...
GALLIONS REACH-H. M. Tomlinson-Harper ($2.50). After he killed a man on board a boat at "Gallions Reach," part of the grey, quiet Thames that breathes near the uproarious alleys of Limehouse, Colet was pursued by a ghost. Through shipwreck, riding the hot ocean in a tiny open boat, even in the green griddle of the jungle, there was always a hand upon his shoulder, a voice in his ear. Finally he obeyed the whispered command and sailed home, to "Gallions Reach." The lands and water over which Colet is driven by a sprinting remembrance are faintly reminiscent...
...Feeling pretty good I was this afternoon through," he mused, digging deep into the jar of grease paint on his dressing-table. "Put over some hot ones, good gags, you get me? made them up as I went along you can do that when you get an audience going. Reminds me, when we were playing in "Sunny", Marilyn Miller and I, you know; we played all through the summer of 1925; hot as it was too, rather warm get me? Well one night there was a woman up in the balcony sitting right under the spot...
...Well, it was so doggone hot up there right under the light that the bed-bugs crawled out of the old seat upholstery and she was scared stiff when they started to bite...