Word: torridity
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Such sensational jottings are the result of long practice. Don Iddon began his reporting career in London, at age 18, with such torrid features as "The Cocktail Girl Myth" (for the Sunday Mercury), later caught on at Beaverbrook's Daily Express, which sent him to New York in 1937. He landed on St. Patrick's day and, say critical Fleet Streeters, "he still writes as though every day is St. Patrick's day in New York." In 1938 he switched to the Daily Mail, started his column five years later and thereby got what he proudly describes...
...Indonesian's atlas the western part of New Guinea is called Irian. No one is quite sure what the word signifies. One theory is that it means nothing, another that it means "warm land." It is, indeed, a torrid jungle and mountain wilderness as big as California. Sparsely inhabited by fuzzy-wuzzy Melanesian cannibals and practically unexploited, it has been a Dutch colony the past 122 years. Last week Irian was also a hot focus of argument between its Dutch rulers and the bumptious young Republic of Indonesia...
Michael Todd's Peep Show is one of those torrid salutes to sex that are considered especially well suited to hot weather. Naturally, it tends to differ from anyone else's peep show, for in recent years nobody has equaled Producer Mike Todd at making burlesque resplendent, respectable and remunerative on Broadway. Of legs and the girl he sings, believing that for many a customer the lure of the female form outranks anything devisable by the human brain. Nonetheless, in show business the human brain can be a help; and Peep Show needs a terrible lot of helping...
What shocked Colorado's moviegoing Senator Edwin C. Johnson most was the way RKO, in publicizing Stromboli, had made hay out of the Bergman-Rossellini romance-e.g., the torrid ads promising "Raging Passions . . . This is it! . . . Bergman . . . under the inspired direction of Rossellini." To halt further public exploitation of Hollywood's moral lapses, Johnson introduced a Senate bill which in effect called for the Government to police the off-screen behavior of all motion picture performers (TIME, March...
Young Mary Pomfret and Philip Weatherby are office workers who are supposed to be in love but court each other as if they were filling out government forms. Instead of making love, they gossip about their scandalous parents, Widower Pomfret and Widow Weatherby, who had a torrid affair years back. Philip and Mary feel obliged to worry whether they may not be half brother and sister...