Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gable's witty, fast-paced performance. He has managed through the years to keep up the pace, if not always the wit; a full Gable catalogue would include several dozen pictures ranging in altitude from the high-flown, windy Gone, which was hardly his fault, to the lowdown, torrid Somewhere I'll Find You, brought out shortly after he left Hollywood in 1942 to join the Army...
...Irish are hot. They began the season with mediocre prospects, then gradually built up pressure. Last week, their torrid teen-agers outgained and outplayed Navy, but had to settle for a 6-6 tie when the Midshipmen refused to be outfought...
...well as Brick Fleagle's Rehearsal Band, vaguely describes it as a "jazz workshop." Brick's band consists of 16 key musicians from top-ranking bands who meet once a week to improve their techniques by moaning & groaning the blues and blaspheming the classics with arrangements too torrid for laymen's ears. One suitably muggy morning last week, Brick's boys cut their first commercial discs, "a blues, a mood and two jumpers"-which the Hot Record Society, purveyors of connoisseur's jazz, will market to hot platter "bugs...
These paragraphs appear in one of the most readable Ph.D. dissertations ever written. Its author is a Negro who, like his subject, torrid Negro dancer Katherine Dunham, went out to observe and find out about living culture at first hand. This week at Cleveland's Western Reserve University the book helped Author Leslie Collins, 28, win the nation's first Ph.D. in American culture...
June 28, 1518 was the name day of Pedro de Vargas in Jaén in Old Spain. It is also the opening date of one of the most torrid, non-stop adventure stories since Anthony Adverse. Captain from Castile begins with Pedro going to confession (he had slept through the Bishop's sermon, and kissed Catana Pérez). The book ends, 633 pages later, with Pedro's bride being prepared by her mother-in-law for the nuptial bed ("And breasts so haughty! . . . Such a figure, too; skin like marble. ... I don't wonder...