Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge granted a second year's leave of absence to Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, Public Safety Police Commissioner in Philadelphia. What with bootleggers and politicians General Butler has been having a "hot time," and Mr. Coolidge, after consideration, although not in general approving of such special leaves, decided to give Philadelphia the privilege of hiring the General for just one year more. He took occasion to point out that the Federal Government is not responsible for General Butler's acts as a city official while on leave...
...Happy New Year. You do not know me; but, one day before you was elected I was walking in back of you. You dropped a dime, but you did not notice it. I picked it up and kept it because I was hungry. It got me a hot cup of coffee and two rolls. Well, I have plenty of dimes now, so I am returning one in the place of yours...
...Mexico of that day he was not understood. From the position of Mayor of Fronteras, the proud Mexican aristocrats forced him. Not a public office was open to him. This drove him to the "soap-box"; and his so-called Radical speeches inflamed the workers to red-hot enthusiasm for him, his enemies to bitter hatred...
...SHOW-OFF?The bombs of bragadoccio bursting in the hot air of irresistible overconfidence...
...Gezira irrigation area in the Sudan is a cause of hot dissension among the Egyptian Nationalists who assert that the waters of the Nile diverted for irrigation purposes will result in depriving Lower Egypt, a rich agricultural district, of a vital supply of water. Engineers have stated, however, that extension of the irrigation area would in no way interfere with the Nile water supply of Lower Egypt...