Word: torridity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contributed Machinal to Broadway's annals of despair, returns this year with a glancing comedy of love in the psychoanalysis belt. A Viennese practitioner of that science prescribes adultery for the wife of a boorish editor. His nostrum proves rather unpalatable, for the lover she chooses is too torrid for a woman acclimated to a temperate zone. Then too, her husband is rather unpleasant about the liaison, so she finally dashes off to Austria with the doctor. Walter Connolly is excellent as the smug, foolish husband, but Henry Hull's persistently fortissimo rendition of the other man frays...
Balmy Portland, Ore., last week well entertained what at torrid Minneapolis last year its representatives had fought and bargained for, the 80th convention of the American Medical Association. Portland is an expensive journey from the populous midwest and eastern medical centres, so the convention was not so well attended as have been most other recent ones. More nearly centralized, although hot, Detroit will have next summer's convention...
...year, must contend with the difficulty of working 'out of the weather,' that is, in order to insure publication at a given date he must have his material ready from six to eight weeks ahead. Thus on a cool June day the artist must be mentally sweating under a torrid August sun, while in October his characters are busily shoveling snow. Add to this the fact that the strip must be equally acceptable from Maine to Texas and it is obvious that it takes considerably more than faultless execution to make a successful cartoonist...
...torrid! is "Blazin" and "Low Down" as intimately conceived and tooted by Coon Sanders. Let us make whoopee indeed...
Bower. Houston (pronounced Hews-ton) has waxed prosperous since the U. S. dredged the Buffalo Bayou and brought the Gulf of Mexico 50 miles northward to the city (TIME, Jan. 23); it has not succeeded in changing torrid June weather. Therefore, as the vast auditorium, seating 25,000, rose on the ruins of what had been Houston offices and stores, thoughtful citizens planned how to beguile northern Democrats into thinking the Houston climate ideal. They planned: a suggestion to all delegates that Houston fashions will demand linen suits; automatic water coolers as effective as nine melting tons of ice each...