Word: sweatbox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite its grim situations, Key Largo is not realistic drama but a philosophical sweatbox giving the third degree to a question that has agitated every mind from Shakespeare's to the corner grocer's: Is life a mere vicious muddle, or are there things worth dying for? Unfortunately it is a problem not to be solved by all the logarithms of philosophy, but by the simple arithmetic of each individual heart. Anderson is determined to use logarithms. His people look inward, outward, up, down, in prose, in verse, in gestures, in glances, until every word they utter appears...
Your reference to the Egyptian Parliament being "a steaming little sweatbox" during the recent investiture of King Farouk (TIME, p. 18, Aug. 9) would have been expected, except that again American engineering and manufacturing has brought cool comfort and the other benefits of true air conditioning to a tropical potentate...
Cairo sizzled at a temperature of 104°-which is too hot even for Egyptians-and the Barlman or Parliament was a steaming little sweatbox, with room only for the Royal Family, Deputies, Senators and diplomats. Here last year, upon the death of Fuad I, the President of the Barlman held up for all to see the envelope into which 13 years before His Late Majesty had sealed the names of three Egyptians whom he wished to act as Regents during the minority of the present King. A flashlight and a magnifying glass were produced to aid the speaker...
...fine Iowa morning last week a country doctor saw a strange thing in the sky. It looked like two clusters of white grapes, floating along with the wind, with something resembling a bathtub, a coffin or a sweatbox dangling below. The doctor was on a confinement case so he did not stop to gawp...
...take Robert Elliott Burns back to one of its notorious chain gangs. Almost everybody in New Jersey thought he had a good idea of what a chain gang was like. The case of Arthur Maillefert, 22-year-old New Jersey boy who died last summer in a Florida sweatbox, was fresh in mind (TIME, Oct. 24). Radio and Press had broadcast the Burns story: how he went to War, returned jobless, was convicted of a $5.85 grocery robbery in Atlanta, escaped once to set up a substantial business in Chicago, escaped the second time to write his cinematized book...