Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Attorney General of Texas, hot on the trail of road contracts let by Governess Ferguson's Highway Commission, succeeded in getting a judgment for the refund of $600,000 excess profits from the American Road Co., in spite of Mrs. Ferguson's directing the Highway Commission to support the road company. Talk of impeaching Governess Ferguson had been smoldering for several weeks. With the judgment it burst into flame...
...Kerrigan, chauffeur, stood in the back yard of his boarding house, carroled loudly, "Yes, We Have No Bananas!" Cried his landlady, a Mrs. Ritter; "Ain't you never going to shut up on that tune, Smottox?" An instant later, as the "Smottox" carroled on, she heaved "a red hot frying pan" out the window "just to scare...
...withdraw all those linotyped cracks we have made at Harvard, and if you boys will come around to the composing room we will put on an exhibition of swallowing hot lead."--Neal O'Hara...
...Catfish Row, contemplates the insignificance of man. In a shadowy triangle involving Crown, a cinnamon stevedore with a chest like a cotton-bale, and his big wench Bess, Porgy's soul undergoes the extremes of compassion and ruthless violence, much as the city now basks sleepily in hot sun, now is hammered with a furious hurricane, now basks again...
...enterprising sheet entitled the Harvard Daily News was originated in 1894, and for two years kept the CRIMSON editors worried. Unscrupulous means were used in the hot competition that followed...