Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local instance" not far from where the Nominee was speaking was the Federal power-and-nitrate project at Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River. Whether the Government shall sell Muscle Shoals, or lease it to privateers, or keep and operate it itself, has been a hot question in the South for ten years. It is still such a hot question that Editor Edward John Meeman of the Knoxville News-Sentinel thought Nominee Hoover's government-in-business passage did not tell the South enough. He asked the Nominee point-blank what it meant. Then came the first Hoover postscript...
...temperance drinks, such as: "DRINK FOR THE DOG DAYS. A bottle of soda water poured into a large goblet, in which a lemon ice has been placed, forms a deliciously cool and refreshing drink; but should be taken with some care, and positively avoided whilst you are very hot...
...schooner down the Atlantic coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, through the Panama Canal, and up the Western coast. We shall take harpoon guns, fish lines, nets, rifles, tents for camping on shore, and an awning to spread over the deck, so that we can sleep out on hot nights. If anyone has a good boat, he can bring it along too. We are going in search of adventure, and we shall get some...
...have reminded each other not to forget evening jackets and boiled shirts in their baggage. We have drawn ourselves lovely pictures of dining elegantly in mid-air with Commodore Eckener at the head of a flower-decked table . . . but . . . leather coats, woollies and furs will be our evening dress. Hot soup and steaming stew more welcome than cold caviar and chicken salad...
...murdered. The actor-playwright had an admirer-feminine, of course-who was doing the interior decorating in the new house. The foreman had made nasty allusions to the actor-playwright's conduct with the architect, and the foreman's men had seen the interior decorator sinking a hot kiss in the actor-playwright's lips. It all looked bad for the actor-playwright, but there was a happy ending: the real murderer was led away to the electric chair. William Hodge not only wrote the play but played the lead. A welcome relief from him was William...