Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the Orthodox Paradox is a forgotten conversational convention and one must talk radio or stocks to be understood there is still Romance, though it be a little tawdry and shopworn from the treatment it gets at the hands of the Hot-Snappy-True Story magazines. And when the audience thought that the Circle was going on the conversational rocks Maugham rushed forward with a pink scarf labelled Romance...
...never a red-hot prohibitionist. He was known to be dry, just as he was known to be a bit stubborn.*** He never campaigned sensationally for prohibition; he never signed a prohibition pledge or belonged to the Prohibition party. In fact, in 1916, when he came up for election he was opposed by a prohibition candidate. How did he win? He said: "I just kept in the middle of the road." Twenty years in Washington, however, told on Mr. Volstead's hold on his constituents. Some of his old friends had died, others had moved away from Granite Falls...
...into a horrible, puffy, burning mass. Sometimes the disease works into the scalp and down the neck. The toxins are filtering through the lymphatic fluids. The patient is feverish and drowsy. Heretofore the only cure has been to let the disease run its course, to ease the pain by hot fomentations, by the application of powdered starch, and by giving nourishing, easily digested foods. After a few days the beginning edges of the stain fade to a sickly yellow, which follows after the wave of red. The skin scales off in tiny flakes. The fever subsides. Later the skin resumes...
...JEST?The hot breath and cold laughter of Italian nights and days in a glowing revival, with Basil Sydney...
Charlotte is on the eastern coast of Vermont, not far from Otter Creek, a river famed in history and much too hot a ride in a power beat on any August day. It has various inhabitants, varying in number according to the season. The main products are milk and wise cracks of the vintage of the gay nineties. The milk is very good. The most original feature of the landscape is the cemetery in which lie those two sires of even wortheir stock, Mr. Root and Mr. Beer--lie so near in fact that the names on their granite shafts...