Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Troop E, 10th Cavalry, under First Lieutenant Drury, coming to the rescue of the patrol, was fired on by cavalry of Yucopicio then going into position to attack Naco under Topete. When the error was discovered after a pack horse had been shot, the Mexican officers very kindly offered hot coffee. International relations...
...White-hot rage against the "Iron Man" flamed up in the French press last week, when Dr. Schacht as president of the German Reichsbank raised its discount rate from 6½% to 7½%. The inference drawn excitedly in Paris was that the Reichsbank w?s trying to give the impression that German finances are already overstrained and cannot bear even the present reparations burden...
Pleased last week were hot-dog men, peanut men, pop men, billboard men. Pleased also were auto men and tire men. Source of their pleasure was a prediction made by Builder Fred T. Ley ("No job too large, no job too small") head of Fred T. Ley & Co., Inc., holding company for Ley construction and real estate operations...
...nerves already raw from the public interest taken in his social battle in behalf of Mrs. Gann (TIME, April 15), the Vice President last week exploded on the matter of his Mayflower rent. Said he with hot feeling...
TOMORROW NEVER COMES-Robert L. Duffus-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50) In one of those pleasant South American republics where blood is hot and daggers sharp, Latin temperament turns law clerk into general, army-sergeant into dictator, dictator into corpse. Rafael, the law April 29, 1929 clerk, happened to be "nephew" to the canon of the cathedral. That was powerfully to his advantage; but his friendship for Sergeant Domingo, ancient soldier-philosopher, was to more immediate purpose. For Rafael had had the misfortune to fall in love with Vitoria of the mellifluous eyes, Vitoria whom General Hernandez had marked...