Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would not be used to pay the Governments cash deficit, because, for the first time since the War, the Government has a balanced budget which takes into account every expenditure.* When Premier Herriot heard the news, he rushed to the Senate, met M. Clementel in a corridor, had a hot, short, strong talk with him. The result was that the Finance Minister remounted the tribune and toid the Senators in effect that he had been talking a lot of poppycock, that the situation was not as he had represented it to be. He was very sorry and totally misinformed...
...like gunpowder placed in enclosed chambers," says Samuel F. Batchelder '93 in telling of the incident in his "Bits of Harvard History," the explosions were only more violent," and the warfare went merrily on. The kinds of ammunition used were many and various, but perhaps the favorite kind was hot potatoes dipped in steaming gravy. These were very effective, the records show. Moreover, the new method of segregation stirred up class spirit and thus added much enthusiasm to the conflicts...
Exciting bits of information arrive from France, via Associated Press, regarding the student demonstrations over the suspension of the Sorbonne Law School dean, M. Louis Borthelmy. Fifty-thousand students in eighteen universities strike, six thousand indulge in an orderly demonstration, petitions to everything and everybody are circulating like hot cakes...
...SHOW-OFF?A great volume of hot air emanates from a typical American. He talks incessantly and can never be accused of thought...
America moves fast. Speed has leaped to the fore of our national traits. Elinor Wylie calls it a national fever: Americans, she says, keep the pavements red hot...