Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Investigations on the adaptations of animals to high temperatures, as exemplified by the fauna of hot springs, have been carried on by Professor C. T. Brues. He spent the past summer in the field, making observations and collections in parts of Nevada, Utah, and eastern California, where he visited a considerable number of hot springs. The results of this expedition are now being prepared for publication...
...worth. In the piece at hand she plays the mother, and needless to say does an excellent bit. But it is a far from suitable part. The rest of the cast is passable, the playing of the son Juan by Mervin Williams, and the portrayal of the red-hot Nubi by Suzanne Caubaye being most worthy of mention...
When they reached India, they slept in a low dirty town: a wind, as hot and sticky as a conjurer's hand, passed slowly in the air. After breakfast, they flew away...
...hot in Bulawayo (South Eastern Africa) that the monkeys were sitting almost motionless on the lower branches of the trees. The air was as thick as chicken gumbo. Suddenly, the animals and the natives were disturbed by a noise like nothing they had ever heard before. An airplane shot down from the sky and came to an abrupt stop in the tangled grasses of a clearing near the village. A woman stepped out unsteadily and fainted. Two natives picked her up and carried her into Bulawayo, where they gave her some sour milk. She developed a fever, and said...
Skyscraper. The steel riveter-the man who builds the hanging gardens of the U. S.-is herein made the subject of jest. One riveter drops a red hot rivet down the seat of another riveter's pants. Both are rivals for the hand of a chorus girl. The successful riveter (William Boyd) swings through the air on a chain, from his work to a theatre roof, in order to embrace the girl...