Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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National Defense. "Being a nation relying hot on force, but on fair dealing and good will, to maintain peace with others, we have provided a moderate military force in a form adapted solely to defense. It should be continued...
...distinct an individuality as Theda Bara ever had, but on the Metropolitan stage she was unable to glitter as in "Fascination" or "Peacock Alley". The romance of the Merry Widow waltz left the "Publix" patrons cold, whereas less black velvet and fluffy chiffon and more red hot syncopation a la her Ziegfield "Follies" days would have attracted the thunderous applause with which the "Publix" audience greets atrocious slapstick. Miss Murray must be admired, most of all, because she refused to descend to the level of her audience. For the theatregoer who storms the box office...
Take the Air is mostly about a hoofer who gets stranded in and about a Texas aviation field. Through the romantic entanglements of a Spanish aviatrix with a throaty lieutenant, the dark plots of a Spanish smuggler-dancer, the comedy love interest of a hot-dog lady and a splay-faced sergeant, he tap-dances his way to the heart of a pretty heiress. All this is played with the aid of a large cluster of well-dressed chorus girls, to gay and trivial songs...
...Sheik. The dreary monotony of male sheiks who gallop along the hot snows of the desert is made agreeably absurd by a reversal of formula. The beautiful Zaida (Bebe Daniels) kidnaps one Captain Colton (Richard Arlen). This, after a long interval of comic complications, leads to a war with the native Arabians who are repulsed by an adroit insertion of machina in machina. On the sandy screen of white desert dunes, Zaida causes a newsreel, showing a vast army on the march, to be projected. Not used to this kind of mirage, the Arabs surrender rapidly just before the newsreel...
...opportunity may be extended later to include other members of the University. The price of single meals will be $.35, and for those who sign up by the week, $.30 per day. Fruit, cereal, coffee, and toast will be the general menu. At the midday meals for day-students, hot coffee and possibly hot soup will be served at a moderate cost to those who bring their own lunches from home...