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Word: hotly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then there would be masculine Maude Royden, famed pulpit female, who has a reputation among the timorous British Christians as a dangerous missionary of socialism and amidst the red-hot socialists as a tame and sentimental apostle of Christianity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Out-walking War | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...hot," "redheaded" Winston Churchill, ultra-reactionary Chancellor of the British Exchequer, alarmist par excellence, hurled defiance at the Soviet government last week in terms so abusive as to make a diplomatic protest from Russia all but inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winnie Shouts | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...office. Her duty in life seems to be to save one of the junior partners from an unworthy alliance with a married woman. Later the story shifts to Florida and farce runs wild. Miss Negri is less at home with heedless humor than she is with the hot cyclones of emotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jun. 28, 1926 | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...Hagen cool in silk; Mitchell hot in tweed. Which lay down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Jun. 28, 1926 | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

HEAT-Isa Glenn-Knopf ($2.50). This hot jungle of a book contains an innocent West Pointer, a brainy girl from the States and a Dolores whose scented mantilla appears at first to be the real Castilian thing. The scene is perfumed Manila, "charged with alien, bewildering passions" (cf. jacket). The West Pointer is not inflamed by the virtue of his countrywoman's doctrine of drainage and spelling for the natives, but Dolores, an honest-to-goodness Spanish senorita, and in trouble-well, that is different. When the clay feet of Dolores peep from beneath her wicked skirts, the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION,NON-FICTION: Genteel Lady | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

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