Word: torridity
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Hesitating Blues (Muggsy Spanier and his Ragtimers; Decca). Compelling blues rhythms and rough, torrid blowing from an eight-man combination. Spanier, long venerated in the hot-jazz world, lately smashed attendance records at Manhattan's Arcadia Ballroom, now rates as a name-bander...
Harvard will do light opera, and the Yales will chant songs from the torrid zone, which they picked up on their two month's tour through South America last summer. But, reminiscent of early choral years, both groups will sing the lusty notes of traditional football songs...
...girls were rated on four classifications--complexion, figure, looks, and brain, and most had some comment across the bottom of the card. "Free and easy" and "Torrid" were the most common remarks. One card significantly revealed two words: "Hot" with a line drawn through it, and directly beneath it, "Reformed...
Brentano's best-seller (8,000 copies) shows that even in exile the French have not forgotten sex; it is Emigrés de Luxe, a torrid tale of refugees in New York by Maurice Dekobra, worldly wise author of La Madonne des Sleepings...
...that the violinist husband she left behind is more exciting than the Follies, and knock-kneed Susan Gallagher (Judy Garland), who graduates to top billing as a singer. Although their tribulations are never worth the length that short, swart Producer Pandro Berman devotes to them, Miss Garland warbles a torrid tropical tune, Minnie From Trinidad, with true professional gusto. Miss Turner manages the limbs that are to go into limbo and an occasional dramatic sequence with talent, and Miss Lamarr does not spare her uncanny physical charms...