Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gifford in New York." Sir George Evelyn Pemberton Murray, Secretary of the General Postoffice of Great Britain, in London, replied, "Good morning, Mr. Gifford. Yes, I can hear you perfectly. Can you hear me?" Reassured, Sir Evelyn said, "Splendid!" Mr. Gifford read a formal statement. There had been a hot race among U. S. bank presidents, actresses, businessmen, newspapers to be first to talk to London. Who competed and who won, his company refused to say, regarding such information as confidential despite newsgatherers' arguments that the distinction of talking to London on the first day would be "a great...
...expanse of dazzling brass and mahogany in the Palmer House, right there in Chicago. Ask anyone. Then the Windsor out in Denver had sent for him and he was doing pretty good out there, selling cigar boxes full of shiny mineral specimens on the side. Denver was a red hot town for someone with some money to make a lot more in. A growing town, a wideopen town, an ignorant town. Now if only?...
Many persons, of envious temper, or lacking in aesthetic sense, have sneered at the face of John D. Rockefeller Sr. The legends that Mr. Rockefeller is fond of vinegar-pickle, that he drinks hot milk, plays golf in trousers ten years old and never tips more than a dime have so prejudiced these persons that when they see the face of Mr. Rockefeller in the rotogravure section, smiling at golf balls or giving dimes to children, they perceive that the face is old, and say that it is mean. John Singer Sargent, greatest of U. S. portrait painters, had another...
...young lady had done the right thing. That was, while only to be expected of a really good reporter, somewhat significant. She had regained her feet, brushed herself off, proceeded to the Associated Press office and written her story before thinking of smelling salts or a hot water bottle. And the young lady was "somebody," too. So newspapers published the story of her accident, complete with homilies on reportorial disregard of self, and also her picture -pretty Mrs. William (Julia Davis) Adams, daughter of onetime presidential nominee John W. Davis...
...divine right of Kings, of the inalienable sovereignty of the government, whereas it is founded on the principle of the sovereignty of the people and of representative government. In order that the people may properly exercise this sovereignty, the fullest discussion of public men and measures must hot only be permitted but encouraged. The government is given a mandate to carry out the will of the people of the United States and this is the only conceivable method by which it can be Coordinated whether it is fulfilling function. President Coolidge needs to brash up on his high school civies...