Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Florence's chic ankles twinkled toward him. Her figure is svelte, lithe-though she does not dance-her voice sultry, a blues voice. At a curt nod from her the huge, perspiring black who is Miss Jones' husband snapped his hot-time jazz baton. Prince Henry hesitated, then rose, followed Florence out on the floor and black-bottomed...
Food. A pancake griddle that bakes 440 pancakes at a time is a feature of the refugee camp at Monroe, La. It is made of welded strips of sheet iron, under which run pipes with natural gas. Thus some 3,000 refugees are speedily supplied with their hot cakes and maple syrup breakfast...
...covered the mile and a half in 2 min., 34 2/5 sec., had established a new record for the English Derby on the Epsom Downs course. Two lengths behind Call Boy's nose finished Sir Victor Bassoon's Hot Night...
...Harris had led a lively life. From earliest boyhood he had been in and out of "hot water." Expelled for pranks from Black River Academy, expelled for "his love of fun" from the University of Vermont, he managed to finish his education at Princeton. The next few years he served as night clerk in a Florida hotel, acted in a Denver stock company, reported for newspapers, punched cows, mastered the traveling man's profession. He sailed to England on a cattleship, batting around at many an odd job and alwayssto this he attributes his success?always keeping "well-dressed...
Harvard men have long been prominent in the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti--not, probably, because the University is a hot bed of socialism, not because the men concerned have sought to create names for themselves by sensational tactics, but because to most enlightened people it appeared that justice in Massachusetts was in grave danger of miscarrying. The courts, they thought, had perhaps been honest, had adhered to every rule and precedent, had obeyed the letter of the law to the end of the alphabet. But the very safeguards of the individual in this case, it seemed, had rendered justice...