Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stable government must rest upon the confidence of its people. High administrative offices must be en trusted with responsibility and on their good faith, proven by the test of time, the people must rest." The issue which called forth this dictum concerned the above-named Bureau of Internal Revenue. Hot Greek fire has been aimed at it, all during the present session of Congress, be cause of the millions of dollars it was re funding to income-tax payers, private and corporate. Senator McKellar had finally introduced a bill which would automatically put all refunds under the immediate control...
...Hot Water. Lucille La Verne has been identified so long with an old hag in Sun-Up that it was hard to believe in her latest characterization, that of a decayed but kind-hearted actress named Duckie. This actress, once highly popular behind footlights, has become, through the re versals of circumstance, a janitress. But she continues doing many good turns every day, for which the recipients repay her badly...
...invention of "showersols," a practical device which no doubt will be patented by some one of the few spectators at Hot Water, which eventually brings her victory over janitorial and other diffi culties. ''Showersols" are collapsible umbrellas. A kind, rich friend of Duckie's takes to manufacturing them, thereby providing Duckie with wealth and a moral value for the play, which has little value of any other kind...
...teeth connecting with venom sacs in the snake's upper jaw. When the fangs puncture animal, fish or reptile the venom (in most snakes a yellowish fluid) is squeezed, like a hypodermic injection, into the victim's flesh. Hindus defang their serpents by searing the jaws with hot irons. Others rip the fangs out with pincers or flick a cloth at the snake's head until the fangs are caught in the cloth and yanked out. Defanged snakes quickly grow new fangs...
...benighted Jack boarded the train, having flown in hot pursuit of his runaway wife. Hugely flattered, she remembered to be cross with him; pitched promptly into the political battle, and continued hostilities through and in spite of another of those French railway accidents. Her father-in-law, emerging from a long faint, marveled that she should so tenderly minister to his wounds, the while brutally warring with his son. This modern generation-impossible that they should one moment barely escape death, and the next moment resume their petty quarrel. Had they no nerves, no emotions...