Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Panama City train with his wife and five children in tow. But everyone turned in terror as with a sudden ccr-a-a-c-k a fierce-eyed fellow lashed out at him with a horsewhip. Soon the two were grappling for a revolver, rending the air with torrid Spanish curses. Police intervened and hustled both men off to jail...
...Brunette and shapely, Heloise got a job as a dancer on Captain Kay Parsons' Show Boat, making nightly excursions on the Hudson River. Within two weeks she left Captain Parsons to join the chorus of Rudy Vallee's Revels of 1935 at the Hollywood Restaurant, a torrid Broadway hot-spot notable for its bare performers, bad air and brusque service...
Since human beings are creatures of infinite adaptability, they make themselves comfortable and thrive in torrid and frigid zones, on mountains and in prairies. Skillfully they adjust themselves to the slowness of farm life, to the speed of great cities. But medical authorities say that men do not adapt themselves to ceaseless din. In New York City recently an insistent band of noise-haters has tried to get the clamors of their metropolis abated. Last week loud Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia headed those noise-haters and ordered his policemen to compel a measure of silence in Manhattan. Policemen gave particular...
Second Operator George Ignatius Alagna made two fiery trips from the radio shack to the bridge to get instructions. On the bridge he found members of the crew "running around." Chief George W. Rogers stood by. In the torrid darkness some of his batteries exploded, smoke dazed him. He thought: "If I am supposed to be dying it doesn't hurt very much. . . . I'm just getting sleepy." On his second trip from the bridge, Assistant Alagna brought authority for the SOS. He helped Rogers to safety...
...season began, five shows of the 1933-34 season were still running on Broadway. Veterans of the torrid doldrums, two were smut shows for summer visitors (Are You Decent? Sailor, Beware!), one was an uproarious comedy (She Loves Me Not), one was a revue (As Thousands Cheer), one was a local color drama (Tobacco Road...