Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time the scrivener was so famished that the stuffed brown bears on the cliff overlooking the lake looked appetizing and as the Golden Rod Bassaqua was fondling a pet "huskey" instead of cooky savory moose chops he excused himself and headed for the nearest "hot dog" caravansary...
...Governor Moody and 29-year-old Mrs. Mildred Moody (who married on Apr. 20 last) gone from the Capitol to the executive mansion, there they would have found on the table a piping hot meal. (Texas tradition requires that the outgoers do the incomers this courtesy.) But the Moodys did not touch this food. They did not set foot in the executive mansion. Instead they went to rooms in the Stephen F. Austin Hotel. At the executive mansion a thoroughgoing inventory is being taken. "I was long enough in the Army," said Governor Moody, "to learn not to sign...
...last week attended a 'circus party' given for Violinist and Mrs. Paul Kochanski by Mr. and Mrs. William May Wright in their apartment. Walter Damrosch, Josef Stransky, Efrem Zimbalist and George Gershwin took turns leading 'the world's greatest circus band.' Munching hot dogs and popcorn, sipping pink lemonade, we strolled among sideshow booths -'The Sword Swallower,' 'The Circassian Beauty,' 'The Fire-eater,' 'Mysteria, The World's Greatest Fortune Teller'-regaled by guest- clowns who under their disguises were clever creatures like Ethel Barrymore, Ina Claire...
...President Bizzell might have taken an emetic, or gulped down some ice cream or cracked ice ; or tried some chloroform, musk or morphine; or put a hot water bottle on his stomach or cervical spine; or merely stuck out his tongue as far as he could strain. These are various means of calming hiccoughs. The hiccough results from a spasm of the victim's diaphragm, which suddenly descends and causes the lungs to suck in a draft of. air. The air strikes against the partially closed glottis to cause the characteristic ripping cough. Frequent attacks of hiccoughs may accompany...
...Duke K'ung seemed to have an excellent chance of reaching an age where- U. S. immigration policy permitting-he might cause U. S. headlines: "Kid Confucius, Freshman, Comes to Old Penn" or, since many an able Chinaman has played on a U. S. college team, "Duke Boots Hot One to Trounce Tiger Soccerites...