Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time when Mr. Wheeler was hot on the heels of Harry Micajah Daugherty, Attorney General, an indictment was brought against him for illegally accepting a fee from an oil man. The charge was tried and Wheeler was acquitted in Montana last spring...
...road and from all the four corners of the earth, and in 1,000 voices, was money, money, money! We were living over a powder mine, and every minute brought a new sensation, brought a dozen of them, brought one hot after another...
...Besides, he is a great traveler?spends only his winters in Berlin and the rest of the year roaming the world. The spirit of the man who wrote this strange book about Peter the Great is best expressed in his own words: "I must go on fighting with a hot blade the sounding battles within...
TIME'S inaccuracies are chronic, flagrant and even self evident! On p. 34 of your issue of Dec. 14, you say that a rat, with a "pointed grey face" fell into a Miss Rachael Galpern's "hot soap-bath"; yet a moment later you speak of the animal as "an enormous black rat!" Squirm out of that, if you can! I suppose you will say that a "black rat" can have a "grey face...
...then, so much clamor? Simply because the Irish Republicans have fought long and fiercely to bring back "the lost Catholic provinces of Ulster" into the Free State. Should the present boundary and territorial status quo be recognized as permanent by the Dáil, these aspirations would go glimmering. Hot-head De Valera cried: "Shall our sympathizers in Ulster be surrendered as helots to their enemies? Shall we stomach a dishonorable peace because the Free State is to be a little pampered in respect to her debts by England...