Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reach of the Saturday Evening Post has found a new source of reading matter. Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard Investigates it and gives his results in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. He finds that magazines with a bold sex appeal such as True Confessions. Artists and Models, and Hot Dog are enjoying a tremendous vogue. Mr. Villard recognizes that danger but he would not have a rigid censorship. They are after all, a small price to pay for liberty...
...other college comics had kept closer to their model, they would not be in moderate disrepute today. While the Lampy serves a purpose, a serious one beyond its superficial humor, others have become no more than depositories for what may well be termed flapper humor. Their prototype is unfortunately "Hot Dog" rather than Lampy. --Cornell Daily...
Last week, Professor Karl T. Compton reported that he had put molecular hydrogen into a tungsten tube, heated it to 2,800 degrees Centigrade, thereby dissociating it into atomic hydrogen, and shot into this a current of electrons from a hot filament similar to those used in a radio tube. The energy of this current was readily reckoned in volts, and as the voltage was increased things began to happen to the hydrogen atoms it encountered. Suddenly they began to emit radiation of a definite wavelength, measurable as a single line in a light spectrum. The hydrogen atoms had been...
Suzanne Lenglen, with a shaking hand, tilted to her lips a long amber glass. The touch of her hand frosted the glass, for she was very hot; only a mad woman would imbibe iced liquors at such a time?a mad woman, or a French woman. Onetime King Manuel of Portugal, Grand Duke Michael of Russia, ex-King George of Greece, the Rajah of Pudukkottia, watched the amber glass tilt up and up; the linesmen, the umpires and 4,000 of the smartest women and the richest men in Europe counted her rapid swallows. Nine, ten, eleven. . . The glass...
...fine phrase, and the dry-goods men, as is their wont, responded heartily. Many were the delighted slaps and winks, the chewed cigars, the roguish stories passed from lip to lip amid shouts of, "Brother, you surely made a sale with that one" . . . "Let me tell you a red-hot one" . . . "Now down south they say" . . . "The one about the man with a harelip and the woman with St. Vitus' dance. . . ." It is true that among the 3,000 owners or executives of dry-goods stores who checked into the hotel there were several who did not know...