Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interim. When Congress assembled, it refused to consent to Stanton's removal and he returned to his office in the War Department building. President Johnson, however, appointed General Lorenzo Thomas Secretary of War. When Thomas tried to take over the Department, Stanton refused to budge. He had a hot temper and a sharp tongue. He sat tight, even lived in his office for a number of days. He called General Grant to his aid and General Carr was placed in charge of the War Department building to prevent Stanton's ejection by force...
...many long columns of what they almost unanimously called a crime de charité. Newsboys ran madly along the boulevards bawling out last-minute news of the proceedings. The kiosks were besieged by excited crouds loudly demanding the latest edition of the Intransigeant or some other afternoon newspaper. In the hot cafés, where garcons scurried hither and thither with the large trays groaning under the weight of amer-picons, bocks and grogs americains, men discussed the trial in an undertone, sad, strained expressions on their faces...
...Dempsey the fearless, who has faced Carpentier, Firpo the "Argentine bull", and Tom Gibbons, the hardest hitter in the ring, without a qualm, lost his nerve. "Professor Dempsey? That's a hot one," he is reported to have said as he dismissed the crestfallen pedagogue...
...SHOW OF-The glorification of the American hot-air merchant which has made Manhattan merry for almost a year...
...beginning of the past week, Bishop William T. Manning D.D., LL.D., sent out an army of Church workers into cold streets and hot offices of the great city. They solicited U. S. dollars and cents in the brave hope of collecting $10,900,000 which is to complete the $15,000,000 fund for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. To one division of the army, Bishop Arthur S. Lloyd said...