Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blazing summer came early to Austria this year, and has continued with such fierce intensity that last week many Austrians were in the irritable state of people who have said too often: "I can't stand it! It's just too hot...
...seem dour and harsh as he has grown pontifical, in London repeated his great sermon castigating "companionate marriages," the term by which he describes ephemeral connubialities wherein contraceptives are used (TIME, July 4). Because he was in England, where wrath against the Russian Soviets is temporarily being kept hot (TIME, May 23), he made his sermon timely by blaming the idea of such unions on the Soviets. The present diplomatic separation between Great Britain and the Soviets, he said, the U. S. unanimously endorsed. Dr. Cadman, a less intense, a more mundane orator, had quips and fancies to offer...
...biting her pen and looking cross and unhappy. ... The bell rang. 'Oh teacher . . i.!' 'Still haven't finished Clare? Afraid you can't have any more time today.' I experienced all the pangs of thwarted ambition, denial in che midst of white hot creation, death in the midst of life, and could have wept." The many assurances of Author Cameron's eagerness to express herself arouse the suspicion that she would have done better to curb her eagerness until she was eager to express more than her eagerness to express herself...
Chief of Police Joseph Wakelin soon saw that the "extra" was the work of no Hot Springs newspaper, that it was evidently a publicity stunt for the film, Tell It To The Marines, starring Lon Chaney, showing that night at a local theatre owned by one Sidney M. Nutt. Chief Wakelin instantly caused Mr. Nutt's press agent, one Charles Hefley, to be arrested...
Dearie (Irene Rich). The lengths to which the U. S. Mother will go in order to send a fatherless son through college are herein demonstrated by the heroine, who sacrifices herself as a night club entertainer. When the manchild, on vacation, discovers the Hot Momma's occupation, he excoriates, then shoots her-although the latter action is represented as accidental. Such violence leads to remorse and eventual reconciliation between widow and mite. The better element in the audience, however, is likely to remain rueful...