Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis Gross, a retired Catholic priest of Perth Amboy, N. J., mopped his thick jowls in the torrid committee room as he told of an anti-Semitic pamphlet he had written called "Justice to Hungary, Germany and Austria." When his printer dunned him. Father Gross wrote him that none other than the Reich's Ambassador at Washington, Dr. Hans Luther, was his "sponsor, financial backer and promoter.'' The German Embassy, said Father Gross, had purchased 100 copies of his pamphlets at 70? each. The German Embassy retorted: ''It goes without saying that the German Ambassador...
...explained to President Roosevelt, "has not been conducive to my own health or that of members of my family." The President accepted with customary regrets, and within one hour nominated for Governor of Puerto Rico a man who he believed would bear up better under the island's torrid political climate. He was Major General Blanton Winship, U. S. A. retired, of Macon, Ga. General Winship is a rare type, an experienced U. S. colonial official. He entered the Army in '98, wears the ribbons of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrec tion, the Cuban Pacification...
...Bartholomew's Hospital, winner of two scientific prizes for his work on puerperal sepsis, was dropped from the medical register for "secret and improper association with a married woman patient." Unlike the disgraced British doctors of Somerset Maugham and other tropical romancers, he did not fly to a torrid oblivion of drink, cynicism and "mammy-palaver." Since his expulsion Dr. Burt-White has been studying...
...this case the Corsican comes to life in a wax works under the torrid gaze of a film actress (Lenore Ulric). He makes a date with her for the evening, borrows Woodrow Wilson's top hat, Mussolini's sponge-bag trousers and with some advice given by Landru, the wife-murderer, sets off to the assignation. Some French generals hear of the resurrection, insist that the Little Corporal make all Europe French. After a visit to a disarmament conference, a few experiences with radios and telephones, Napoleon goes back to the wax works in disgust. All this...
Since Mr. Grinnell began trolling for broadbills where Long Island Sound joins the Atlantic, many another fisherman has gone there for the sport, preferring cool Montauk to torrid Cuba in the summer months. Many a Florida fishing captain works out of Montauk every year now. The ablest ones include Captains Bill Hatch, Bill Fagan, Howard Lance, Charlie Thompson, Tom Gifford...