Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another qualification has usually been an extensive record of party service. Colonel Harvey helped to engineer the coup by which Mr. Harding was nominated at the Republican Convention in 1920. It was in his rooms in Chicago, hot and filled with tobacco smoke, that at three a. m. on a June morning the agreement was made which produced the nomination. Similarly Ambassador Child spent the Summer of 1920 in Marion editing Senator Harding's speeches. Similar services were rendered by Myron T. Herrick, Ambassador to France, and by Charles B. Warren, Ambassador (since resigned) to Tokyo. President Coolidge...
...manufacturers of frankfurters, it seems, have before them the task of reforming some hundred million loyal American citizens. The term "hot dog", they claim, is misleading. Dog-meat may be all right in an emergency, but it is not to be inferred that the Coney Island frankfurter has any canine connection...
...term "hot dog" is to meet the same fate of other recent, American institutions it is not safe to say what next one may expect. Before long, mayhap, the hungry student, entering Jimmie's or the Waldorf, may find at his shoulders a brass-buttoned upholder of the law listening intently to make sure that such a misleading and damaging term as "black and tan" is not employed. The logical sequence, of course will be the "blind puppie" where, for two or three times the ordinary price, one may still feel the thrill of quietly whispering to the man behind...
...question of whether the clock was turned back an hour on Saturday night or on Sunday morning might well furnish the theme for a hot debate. It is much the same problem as that in the old Greek dilemna of the lawyer and his prentice. But waiving this point, it is probable that nobody felt the effect of the turning except in a fresher sensation when he waked. Another unnoticed effect there was also. The quitting of Daylight Saving Time has put a period to the summer. No longer can one pretend merrily that 12 o'clock...
...North Bergen, N. J., a man named P. Branniccangtuoanginy was granted the privilege of selling hot dogs at a political picnic...