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Word: hotly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected to play. They were as startled as auction bridge players hearing a bid of nullo. What surprised them at first was the avidity with which the public took to the notion of tax reduction. The Congressmen, who were at first noncommittally opposed, soon turned lukewarm, later hot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Yesteryear | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

...With hot water or cold, Colgate's softens the beard quickly, and it leaves the face cool, soothed and velvet. Men who lather with this marvelous cream need no lotions to relieve or disagreeable dryness of the skin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEN WAXED ENDS WERE WOEFUL | 11/4/1924 | See Source »

...Times (Democratic), livest to the situation of all Manhattan newspapers, took counsel early, decided that it was within the law, published all the names and amounts it could lay hands on. It gobbled the hot potato whole and was willing, if necessary, to pay $1,000 for so good a meal. To a city full of irate financiers it said: "Resentment . . . is justified but belated. It should have been aroused more vehemently at the time the bill was pending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hot Potato | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

Laura Jean Libbey, as much of an institution in our country as Christopher Columbus, the hot dog, Pike's Peak, the Statue of Liberty, is dead at the age of 62. Her passing means a severe dearth in the reading-matter of millions of the great submerged. She was to the masses what Michael Arlen temporarily threatens to become to the classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laura Jean Libby | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

...acted as judges. Not one of the hundreds of anthems submitted was deemed worthy. This was to be expected. It isn't the way to get an anthem. Ireland may have one already without knowing it. The Irish national anthem, when it is adopted, will come straight from hot Irish hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ireland's Anthem | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

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