Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This first contretemps safely weathered, there remained the problem of washing Tricky, the Queen's pet spaniel. Tricky had managed to soil her coat on a lump of railway grease. Hot water in quantities was requisite. Resourceful, a lady-in-waiting heated pot after pot of water in an electric percolator...
...Cardinals, came up to bat, pushed back his cap, was cheered for two and a half minutes. The first and most exciting inning of the game ended with one run for each team. Thereafter Pitchers Pennock and Sherdel twisted their slow left handers over the corners of the plate, hot-dog venders dragged themselves along the aisles. In the sixth inning Baseman Gehrig drove home Fielder Ruth for a winning run. Score: New York, 2; St. Louis...
...sliding pajamaed into the street; riotous nights in New York when Barymore and his cronies stole the huge plaster sword from the Dewey arch and paraded with it through every bar on Broadway; nights not so riotous but equally fertile in reminiscence, nights that ended with a breakfast of hot water, pepper and salt in default of money to buy anything more filling; this is the kind of a life that everyone yearns for at some time of his life, and, in all candor, would rather read than the novels that used to be labelled 'problem' and are now called...
...majestic, heiress of a clan which had its roots in the shade of a southern plantation and its later branches in opulent California; her father, the great Kajetan, fiery master of the piano, a sort of Pietro Mascagni of fiction, with huge handfuls of blue-black hair and the hot blood of Italy's vine-clad valleys. Elizabeth Sinclair died soon after Adrienne was born; Kajetan, like a wanton Ulysses, had left for other shores. In Laguna Vista, California, a delicious world began to unfold itself to Adrienne . . . bronzed turkeys leapt at pungent, low-hanging figs . . . bronzed Mammy chanted...
...hot sultry month that's called July (Forever famous to Posterity...