Word: torrid
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...appeal exude from Jane Froman in the budding song hits, "Look Out For My Heart," "Clear Out of This World," and "I'm In The Mood." Lyrics in the last barely slip by the Boston censors. On the hotter side of the song-leader, Virginia O'Brien sings four torrid arrangements in the Andrews Sisters manner. Giving the audience everything from dinner with the Roosevelts to a boudoir rendezvous with a dozen bare, telephoning Petty girls, "Keep Off the Grass" may not fulfill all extravagant pre-opening predictions; but with Bolger down-stage, its security on Broad-way is unquestionable...
...Mohammedan who should venture inland from it to Holy Mecca, birthplace of Mohammed. Jidda harbor is protected by two miles of treacherous reefs, and gingerly last week the chugging little steamer bearing Bert Fish went threading in through the narrow, twisty channel called "Jidda Gate." The blinding white and torrid town, where every window is latticed against the sun, is a maze of narrow streets into which tall stucco houses jut at crazy angles. All but one of the city gates are generally kept locked, and a Christian in Jidda is acutely conscious of the hostile glances of the purely...
Sirs: If the Washington correspondents cannot coin a name for the '30s perhaps TIME readers can do so. As one, I submit Hangovera as a suitable title for that period following the Torrid Twenties Jamboree. Bitter tongues and family quarrels; sour medicines and the doctor's bill;-a morning after if there ever was one, complete with Pink Elephants...
...money and power are what James Caesar Petrillo gets out of life as a union man. Dark, torrid Jimmy ("Mussolini") Petrillo is president of the Chicago Federation of Musicians (A. F. of L.). For his labors in behalf of unionized music...
Among the principals, Pert Kelton creates a slight hiatus with her renditions of "Stick to Your Arithmetic" and "I Was Afraid of That"; if you shut your eyes, Mr. Dixon's voice and tapping is entertaining--but these two score against very mediocre competition. Miss Martin is torrid only when she is coy, but her part herein demands that she be frigid, and hence her occasional attempts at coyness only serve to make her appear ridiculously childish. Furthermore, she has no song suited to either her voice or her personality, and she looks ill and overworked...