Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that is a crime, let them go holler their heads off. The public seems to have gone crazy and there is a lot of hot air in the Senate about this oil thing, but it will not disturb me, because my transactions were absolutely legitimate...
...annual Treasury Department supply bill. The cut reduces the sum from $149,000 to $25,000. This will involve termination of all coperative activities between the Federal Government and the various states, of activities in the field force of the U. S. Public Health Service, of research at Hot Springs, and of the widespread educational campaign carried on since the War. The action limiting coöperative activities with the various states is in accord with the policy recently announced by President Coolidge to discontinue all subsidies to states as economically unsound and undesirable...
Senator Moses, Republican: "Here we shall continue to find the partisan pack in full bay?Bess, Tray and Sweetheart?all hot upon the scent. Here, I suppose, we shall continue to see, and the country will not fail to take notice of, a proceeding in which we find sick chambers invaded by a jazz band, a ghoulish dance performed on a cemetery and partisan snipers making a rifle pit of the grave of Warren Harding...
...mysterious malady developing during the past three months, whose marked symptom was a wasting, intermittent fever." This despatch inferred that the rumors in Russia about Trotsky were more numerous than those received by the outside world, and that the political dispute of which Trotsky is the center, was "so hot as to mislead some of the Communists themselves." Léon Trotsky, son of a Jewish farmer of the Ukraine, is 44 years of age. At nine he went to Odessa and studied at St. Paul's High School, where, says he: "I displayed great diligence in my studies...
...Irishmen who had tortured a prisoner by pouring hot rosin into his boots.) I accept in good part your careful travail and greatly commend your doings...