Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early and uncorrupted days, Raisuli was a theological student in the Mohammedan schools of Tetuan, and might today have been a muezzin--truly a romantic figure, but hardly likely to perplex the Spanish government. At present, he is an expert purveyor of hot water: his daily production floods the Spanish market with trouble. As long as Raisuli is doing the acrobatic in Tangier, that sector of the international map will pull the front pages. Meanwhile, he is an answer to those sceptics who doubt the existence of "real, live, kidnapping sheiks...
Cancellation of the French debt is not in question. Premier Herriot has made it plain that all France asks is time to acquit herself honorably. In the midst of debate hot words have been uttered both in the French Chamber and in the American Senate. It is now high time statesmen return to sanity and newspapers to the truth...
...perhaps not surprising that she left little mark in the campaign of 1872, for that was a very hot contest. Grant was running for a second term. At a convention of Liberal Republicans in Cincinnati, Horace Greeley, editor of The New York Tribune, was nominated over Charles Francis Adams. Greeley was for high tariff; he had often flayed the Democrats. Yet the Democratic convention chose "to eat crow" and nominated Greeley. For a time Greeley scared the Grant men. He drew huge audiences when he spoke. The campaign became viciously personal. Thomas Nast, having just helped to upset the Tweed...
...Compson) married to simple senility (Theodore Roberts) falls in love with a young and handsome hero (Theodor von Eltiz). This happens by the side of a trout stream in romantic circumstances that just escape being obvious. From the viewpoint of technique the story gets worse and worse. A red-hot flatiron sets fire to the house at midnight, and, as if this were not ridiculous enough, the young lovers, saying protracted good-byes in the lady's bedroom, persist in arguing as the flames sweep around them. There is the usual insipid ending-divorce and the marriage...
...noble Nordic of Richard Harding Davis fame who tamed wild generals and won beautiful women in the hot Spanish southland has long since passes the sceptre of popular favor to that delicate product of modern novelists: the hero who analyzes and records his "complexes." Yet when this newer type becomes a trifle boring the exaggerated romances of Davis still retain some of their old charm; and when one of his adventurers actually appears on the crowded walls of lower Manhattan the mostest jaded Broadwayite is tempted to look. So with "Tex" O'Reilly...