Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anti-Tobacco Society in New York; it sank this year as Kansas, last state with an antitobacco law, repealed its pertinent legislation. The sequence recalls 17th Century Persian history; Shah Abbas made his tobacco-using courtiers smoke camel's dung for punishment; his grandson Shah Sen poured hot, melted lead down the throats of tobacco merchants; another Shah, Abbas II, found smoking pleasant and canceled old Persian laws...
...musty smell of a class room after lunch with bits of greasy sandwich wrappings in the aisles . . . more bells and the shuffle of feet going downstairs . . . two ratty brats squirming at their desks, writing out "I must learn to be polite and not to pass notes" . . . through the hot passages where cleaning women stir the dust into corners . . . . the sudden fresh darkness outside...
...Hot Springs and Geysers," Professor Mather, Geological Lecture Room...
Came the army to Chippenham, where hot tea and biscuits (crackers) were served to them at Labor headquarters. They came in the dead of night, their miners' lanterns swinging by their side. No pretty girls could lure them from their sleep...
Again silent Banker Stillman speaks. In England, he learned that Mr. Morgan was living alone. So he paid a call one hot June morning. "Morgan asked, 'What brought you here to see me, Stillman?' I answered, 'Oh, I thought you might be lonely.' Whereat Morgan jumped up from the table and ran around and kissed me on the cheek...