Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parson Weems sold his books at fairs, races, sittings of county courts from New York to Georgia-between times "beating up the headquarters of all the good old planters and farmers . . . regardless of roads horrid and suns torrid." He sold Paradise Lost, The Vicar of Wakefield, Robinson Crusoe, Cook's Voyages, the works of Voltaire, Tom Paine and Bunyan and Bard's Compendium of Midwifery, which he touted as "the grand American Aristotle...
Eight make-up games next week bring to a climax a torrid month of intramural baseball, as the three leading teams, Companies B and C and Lowell House, battle for the pennant in the extended season...
...girls are June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven, the sailor Van Johnson. Miss Allyson's notable contribution is a torrid rendition of "Young Man With A Horn"; Miss DeHaven is sensational as her own good-enough-to-eat, red-headed self; while Johnson chases the gals across the screen often enough to hold the interest of even the most hardened wolf...
...goes to 3,000 shut-in or isolated children in all of the 48 states and such odd spots as Poona, Ruanda-Urundi, Juneau, Waialua, Horta, Haiti. It is constantly expanding: last week Calvert was taking on U.S. children who will study as a group in Nicaragua's torrid Managua...
...hardened U.S. and British correspondents seemed more impressed than Dr. Imbo. No man-made scene of battle and destruction had shaken them so verbally. They wrote: ". . . incredibly awesome. . . . The great lambent tongue on the mountainside . . . some giant blast furnace suddenly gone berserk. ... A moving, burning coalyard ... a torrid, gluey mass ... a gigantic, grey-and-orange glowworm. ... All the freight cars in the world had hauled cinders from all the steel mills ever built and dumped them. . . ." But a G.I. corporal from Indiana topped them all. Said he, as he watched Vesuvius in action: "Gosh, when I tell 'em about...