Word: hotfooters
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Impractical Joke. In Los Angeles, Thomas J. Gant didn't see anything to laugh at when Thurman Lee Dawson gave him an outsized hotfoot with lighter fluid: he shot the prankster dead; the court called it justifiable homicide...
Pass offense and defense with lots of spirit and chatter marked the proceedings, but a few goldbricks were noted among the eager beavers. While Bob Waterfield knocked himself out dragging down a 60-yard toss with one hand, Tom Harmon gave Kenny Washington a hotfoot and the line played footy-footy...
Some people said that vindictive old John L. Lewis itched to hotfoot the Administration on Nov. 5. Some said that crafty old John L. Lewis wanted to get a wage oar in for his United Mine Workers before the rival C.I.O. began its new race for raises. Still others said that, after five months of relative personal anonymity (while his U.M.W. grubbed along on its Government contract), egomaniacal...
Last week Kansas Republicans admitted that they could no longer ignore a ridiculous situation. They had been given a hotfoot by small, bald, old-maidish Harry Hines Woodring, ex-governor (1931-33), ex-Secretary of War (1936-40), who last February lambasted Kansas prohibition as a "farce," called enforcement officers "shadows in a bootleggers' forest...
...only thing the tanners could do was hotfoot it for Washington. There, joined by shoe manufacturers, they clamored for 1) complete decontrol of hides and leathers, or 2) hefty price increases...