Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holy Cross offense will take about the same form as in last week's fray, excepting the possible placing of Cahill for Shanahan at the hot corner of the diamond...
Sued. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, husband of Mary Josephine ("Polly") Lauder Tunney; by a Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty, divorced wife of a Fort Worth plumber; for breach of promise; for $500,000. Claimed Divorcee Fogarty: she met Tunney at Hot Springs, Ark., in October 1924; next year, and later still, he "promised to marry her." Claimed Fisticuffer Tunney (at Brioni, Italy): he only knew Mrs. Fogarty slightly; never intimately; never asked her to marry him. "It must be a joke," said he. Developments...
...hot August day in California when Herbert Hoover accepted the Republican presidential nomination, he proposed "an organized, searching investigation" of Prohibition. That promise ferried him safely across the campaign to election. Congress thought of his proposal as primarily a Prohibition survey when, last winter, it appropriated $250,000 for the expenses...
...pass to first. Whitney then banged out a safety, scoring Nugent. The next play produced two more runs. Gilligan poked a grounder at pitcher White whose throw home to cut off Donaghy went wide of its mark, letting in the third baseman and Ticknor, while Gilligan scampered to the hot corner. He subsequently stole home when White offered the batter a slow ball...
Five years Engineer Woolson and his research staff at the Packard plant have labored designing the motor. They had, first, the diesel principle to go on, i.e., that air can be heated by compression until hot enough to ignite a jet of fuel...