Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Death came last week to Europe's greatest trader and trafficker in Sleep-Davison Dalziel, 74, Baron Dalziel of Wooler. From Finland's icy mountains to Egypt's torrid sands, tired travelers snore peacefully, each night, in the sleeping cars of the great company of which he was president-La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Europeens.† Moreover Baron Dalziel was, up to the moment of his death in London last week, chairman of the British Pullman Car Co.-pioneers of such luxury services as the Pullman-Golden Arrow route between London...
They not only saw the Canal's defenses, but saw them in action, in a "war game" last week. Eleven Navy bombing planes played "enemy" against 25 Army defense planes under a torrid blue sky and at night, under a tropic moon. The "defenders" won. Threatening cruisers and submarines were "sunk" by shore batteries. "Invaders" landed troops, sweated through miles of jungle, reached locks along the Canal, but were finally "captured and killed." The Canal was saved...
...geologist, he knew that the earliest evidences of life on the earth were fossil bacteria living in a torrid climate. But climates change in geologic time and heat loving bacteria die. The quota of bacteria must be periodically filled to keep the population thriving...
Captain Lawry signed on a new cook, one Earl Battice, Mississippi mulatto. With Mr. Battice came Mrs. Battice, wife. Mr. Battice insisted on having her along. The Kingsway, full of fate, started across the torrid Atlantic...
...Desert Song. The belle of Paris tires of the city, seeks romance in torrid Morocco. There she is wooed by the son of the French governor, mildly. The youth warbles...