Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegation of southern Governors, hot from the hearings of the Ways and Means Committee, where they had recommended repeal of Federal estate taxes, dropped in at the White House to see Mr. Coolidge, who agrees with them in that respect...
...democratic hearts to bear, the gentlemen at Washington very cavalierly cancel the Countess Karolyis visit here. On foreign soap boxes she must stand, not on the 99 plus percent pure cubes of these United States. If there is to be any propagandizing it must be native born. Even the hot air must be national...
...Augusta, Me., one Thayer Wilshire, received his weekly pay, entered a drug store, consumed thirteen 10-cent ice creams, six bottles of soda, two ham sandwiches, two hot dogs, two chocolate bars, a box of potato chips and drank several glasses of water. Gourmand Wilshire then ran half a mile to show that he was physically...
When in 1897 the CRIMSON faced hot competition from the News, a lively daily which for two years gave the editors of the older paper many an anxious moment, the importance of the "extras" was doubled. On one occasion, when the University eleven was away from home playing Pennsylvania, the CRIMSON arranged, at a considerable expense, for a private telephone wire direct from the field. The enterprising and unscrupulous News editors tapped the wire, and great was the consternation of the CRIMSON to find their "extra" almost immediately followed by an identical issue of the News...
...been raised too often, however. Europe is more intent upon carrying out the terms of the Locarno treaties than in mixing up in the latest Balkan row, and the American press pursues the even tenor of its ways. Nowadays murders, assassinations and ultimate flying back and forth among the hot tempered members of the Balkan family remind one more of a mock-heroic farce or a travesty on the art of war, than a serious disturbance...