Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LULU BELLE-The tale of a torrid tan courtesan from Harlem, who graduated to a silk-hung Paris boudoir. Principally Lenore Ulric...
...sweet lagoon"-was the perfect sapphire in Queen Victoria's crown? Where else did such a roadstead curve so lustrously about the skirts of such island hills? This island, 29 square miles, had been England's since 1842, her Pacific Gibraltar, her Pillar of Hercules between the Torrid and the Temperate Zones, her trademark on the map of China...
High above the sun blazed down its fiery heat, but the Queen, sitting under her toque in the shade, was unconscious of the torrid atmosphere until the earth shifted and the sun basked in her presence. At this point...
Harvard tied the score in the same inning. Hammond was hit by a pitched ball and Amsden, batting for Coady, reached first on an error by shortstop Nichols. Howard and Samborski were easy for Robinson, but Tobin, batting for Spalding, smashed a torrid two-bagger down the left field foul line scoring Hammond. A wild throw to second by Robinson let Amsden tally, and a Zarakov single to left tied up the game...
...last stroke of mercy when the bull is in his death throes. Bullfighting is a sport to be appreciated only by a hot-blooded people, folk in whom an artistic bloodlust is but one among many appetites?for seething, hot colors; for the glare of white sun-light on torrid sand; for violent animal action; for full-throated screaming; for rich wine, amorous deviltries; and a swift, red death rather than a gray...