Word: hotter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoons, a poet says, have been in Montana, and few of them hotter than July 4, 1923. That day, the sun poured down without mercy on the little cow town of Shelby, where, in a damp prizefight ring, glistened and heaved the ruddy shoulders of Tommy Gibbons, a husky boy who wanted to be champion of the world. Jack Dempsey, the champion, was punching and slashing at Tommy Gibbons. Sweat glistened on the faces of the shirt-sleeved crowd. One man fainted. It was the heat. Another man suddenly had a bleeding nose. Tommy Gibbons felt weak and sick after...
Exuding goodwill-and perspiration, for it grew hotter & hotter-President-Elect Hoover & party proceeded down the west coast of Central America, making four calls, to South America...
...Sicily! Here the dagger flash is a little swifter, the blood a little hotter. At Palermo, Janey finds her olive-skinned prince. He invites her to a house-party at his ancient castle far up in the hills, whereupon Janey promptly despatches her male escorts on a cruise, and sets off for the hills with a guileless chaperon and two flappers. Arrived at the ramshackle castle, the prince mysteriously disappears. A servant explains that the most famous brigand in Sicily is in the district seeking that prince's blood. Janey interviews the bold bad bandit, arranges for the safe...
...fire had started when an ill-greased axle grew hot and hotter, began to spew forth sparks, and finally set the wooden sleeping car afire. Flames danced in the corridor, awakened the attendant. With a bound he leaped for the nearest stop-signal cord, found it already useless, burned through...
...daily the Memorial Chapel controversy waxes hotter, and yearly Appleton Chapel is following Memorial Hall into desuetude, modern educators have sought vainly after the cause and cure of growing religious antipathy among undergraduates. In the fervid scramble after mental and physical achievement, the college has gone blind to things spiritual. With this in mind, the CRIMSON has delved deep until now the "cause causinge," the taproot of the evil lies exposed. By thorough investigation it has been ascertained that the cushions in the chapel pews, unduly hard and cold in the early morning, have enforced many absences. In fact, students...