Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Borah add: 'Herbert, so far you have ignored this question. If you do not immediately answer it "yes" or "no," the righteous wrath of vast multitudes of voters will wax hot against you and, like a great conflagration, consume you and your vaulting ambition on the floor of the Kansas City convention.' [Laughter...
...week, would probably have meant returning to the Woolsack the brilliant Earl of Birkenhead, who sat thereon during 1919-22, but is now Secretary of State for India. Patently Lord Birkenhead does not want to impair his chances of perhaps someday becoming Prime Minister by again withdrawing from the hot arena of politics to the lofty precincts of the Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call to the Lord High Chancellorship another "sound lawyer," Attorney General Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg. But Sir Douglas is much more than a sound lawyer with...
...remote and ultima Thulish is Mongolia, the land which partially bounds China on the north, that last week the following delayed courier despatch loomed in the North China Herald as hot news...
...Tipperary Tim was being led to the paddock, English folk crowded to pat him. They liked the feel of the hot lather on his flanks. They were glad that he had licked the U. S. invader, Billy Barton. Tipperary Tim was a dull horse, a plodder; but he had a nice name that would go down with powerful Poethlyn who won the Grand National in 1918 and 1919 and with nimble Jack Horner, U. S. horse who won in 1926. Hardly anybody noticed two other horses being led to the paddock. They were not feeling well. One of them...
...Hot stuff and nonsense: Funny Face, Good News, Rain or Shine, Manhattan Mary, Keep Shufflin', Take...