Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soon after 1 p. m. on a hot August day, the Prince of Wales alighted from the train, was met by Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes and Colonel C. E. G. C. Charlton, Military Attache at the British Embassy. Thousands of people assembled on the concourse leading from the station, hoping for a glimpse of the British Heir Apparent. Their patience was scantily rewarded, for the Prince walked quickly through the President's Room and entered the President's closed automobile, at the door of which stood Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright. As the Prince passed through...
...Previous Visit. "This is my second appearance at Seagirt. You will not be surprised if I find my memory turning at this time to the circumstances of my earlier visit. It happened on a hot July day, twelve years ago. I was one of a party of 200 or more who tramped in the dust from the station to the Governor's house at Seagirt. At our head marched that grand old Roman, Champ Clark, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives. We were calling on a Governor of New Jersey who had just received the Democratic nomination...
...Next morning, bright and early, so the story goes, the idle were gratified by a glimpse of princely shirt sleeves, a hot, dirty, princely face. The Praga Wagger* was doing his own packing...
...state of Texas had held its second primary. The contestants were Judge Felix D. Robertson (with Klan support) and Miriam A. Ferguson, wife of a Governor who was impeached and removed from office in 1918. She and her husband, who is a hot campaigner, made the Klan the issue-and "Ma" Ferguson won by a margin of about 90,000 votes in a total of almost 800,000. In Texas, a Democratic nominee is considered as good as elected and "Ma" Ferguson is now the Democratic nominee...
...Hot debate followed. An Admiral, three Rear Admirals, a college professor and a writer on naval affairs heckled Mr. Miller; a League secretary (a woman) assisted him. The naval men stuck for "limitation" as differing from "disarmament...