Word: torrid
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Captain Lawry signed on a new cook, one Earl Battice, Mississippi mulatto. With Mr. Battice came Mrs. Battice, wife. Mr. Battice insisted on having her along. The Kingsway, full of fate, started across the torrid Atlantic...
...Desert Song. The belle of Paris tires of the city, seeks romance in torrid Morocco. There she is wooed by the son of the French governor, mildly. The youth warbles...
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...