Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hot nights are easily forgotten at Sunny, The Vagabond King, lolanthe, The Cocoanuts, The Merry World, Scandals, Ziegfeld's Revue...
Election. A hot contest,waged by badges, buttons and posters, for the Association presidency between supporters of Uel W. Lamkin, President of Northwestern Missouri State Teachers' College, and of Dr. Francis G. Blair, State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Illinois, was won by the latter...
...labial pulchritude by smearing their lips with rouge and pressing them upon slips of paper in whatever patterns seemed most seductive. When these slips began pouring in by the thousand, the Mirror treated its "soul-starved" readers to reproductions of the smears. In smelly lunchrooms, dirty washrooms, ugly workrooms, hot bedrooms, thousands of young females forgot their troubles in the decadent thrill of examining, preening and comparing lips. When the winner was announced -a Manhattan nymph, of course, "a dainty little married woman... Christine League"-the Mirror published a close-up photograph of her provocative cupid-bow orifice upraised...
...Some spectators were amazed when Haviland was eliminated in the afternoon round by a putt for a 2 on the 13th. Other blase watchers recalled that last year at Montclair Lamprecht defeated Jack Westland of Washington University 9-7 by means of three consecutive 34's. That same hot day saw another title retained at Merion. Edward G. Chandler of the University of California captured the intercollegiate tennis crown for the second consecutive year by defeating Cranston Holman of Leland Stanford University...
...Hot afternoons have been at old Fort Slocum near New Rochelle, N. Y., and another occurred last week. Private James Stanley and others stripped off their regimentals and jumped into Long Island Sound from the Fort coal dock. Half way over to Glen Island, Stanley's stomach was griped. He floundered. Ashore some sharp-eyes saw him, telephoned the Quartermaster for a launch, seized a towel, waved at a hovering seaplane...