Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Half an hour before the Nominee's arrival at the Coliseum, appeared the man who once called him "the deadliest foe of moral progress in America," thin-lipped hot-eyed Parson John Roach Straton. There was some altercation, but Dr. Straton clutched his ticket. He had promised to behave. He was admitted and took a seat at the back of the platform. His presence intensified the Nominee's grim earnestness. It was a real Moment in the campaign...
...Significance. Author Lewis's Villon is not wax, nor is his fifteenth century Paris papier mache. Himself a man of energy, contemptuous of hot-house estheticism (which he flays in his Dedication and Preface, not the least stimulating portions of the book), he presents a three-dimensional, unsentimental Villon, a sensual idler and criminal, weak, mercurial, but possessed of four stable virtues-faith, patriotism, filial love, gratitude. Somewhere this man's tortured, gusty spirit was luminous with great poetry...
They are equipped with luxurious trappings, hot and cold running water, sleeping compartments, radio sets, spacious windows. The 90-foot wing spread will lift, beside fuel and passengers, 1,000 pounds of baggage. The three Wright Cyclone motors will propel this load at an average 130 m. p. h. for four and one-half hours, could if necessary attain 155 m. p. h., climb 16,100 feet. Edgar M. Gott, president of the Keystone Aircraft Corp., has for the last two months kept the construction of these monsters a secret...
University continuous-"Hot News Bebe Daniels in oen of her many moods, this time as a camerawoman...
...Weatherby, a portly widow with a sensuous passion for exotic religions, was flattered to receive them both one hot afternoon. Vain, she did not suspect that d'Astier came only to convert her wealth to the Church; and d'Orobelli to glean some gossip of Annie Spragg. Maundering, inaccurate, patronizing, Mrs. Weatherby said Annie had lived with her fanatic preacher brother at the edge of Winnebago Falls-her only companion a Hack goat, partner in her devilish Bacchanalian dances. That her father had been Cyrus Spragg, "the Prophet" in Illinois of a garish religion founded upon...