Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week President Coolidge designated it as his choice for a hot-weather week-end retreat for future Presidents of the U. S. He asked Congress for $48,000 to remodel it. It would not be a Summer White House, to which the President would move for a long stay. It would simply be a week-end retreat, an escape from the sticky heat of the low Potomac Valley...
Calvin Coolidge will forget neither these things, nor many more - that hot summer when his younger son, Calvin Coolidge Jr., overcome by a deadly infection, passed away; the cold winter when his father, Col. John Calvin Coolidge, was laid to rest beneath New England snows...
...parks, and authorizing him to incur additional obligations up to $2,750,000 to match public donations for park improvements. Behind this proposal were two purposes: 1) To save Yosemite National Park from logging on 11,000 acres of private land within its confines; 2) To banish forever unsightly "hot dog" stands from Federal expanses of nature's bosom...
Sudden pains came, and the Queen Mother tossed restlessly. Midnight tolled. Maria Christina grew pale, livid, and drops of sweat stood on her brow. She had been stricken with angina pectoris?paroxysms of the heart. Hot applications slightly eased the paroxysms, but before a priest arrived, at 2 a. m., the Queen Mother was unconscious. Last rites were administered, though Maria Christina knew it not, and she died...
...Hot afternoons, a poet says, have been in Montana, and few of them hotter than July 4, 1923. That day, the sun poured down without mercy on the little cow town of Shelby, where, in a damp prizefight ring, glistened and heaved the ruddy shoulders of Tommy Gibbons, a husky boy who wanted to be champion of the world. Jack Dempsey, the champion, was punching and slashing at Tommy Gibbons. Sweat glistened on the faces of the shirt-sleeved crowd. One man fainted. It was the heat. Another man suddenly had a bleeding nose. Tommy Gibbons felt weak and sick...