Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Houston, Tex. Houston will be hot. Houston will be humid. On June 26, Houston mosquitoes will be hungry. At a National Democratic Convention, tempers run short even oftener than monies. The Moody-boosting for Vice President will probably die down next week as lightly as it sprang up last week after Governor Moody's appearance in Washington...
Wheeling in a hot blue sky, U. S. supply planes rained upon the Nicaraguan town of Quilali picks, shovels, hatchets, crowbars. Terrestrial Marines picked up eagerly these useful tools. They had just captured Quilali from General Augusto Sandino (see above) after a hot fight (TIME, Jan. 9), which continued, last week, resulting in the death of one more Marine, and the wounding of five more. It was to succor wounded Marines that the picks, shovels, hatchets and crowbars rained down. With them an emergency landing field was cleared, smoothed. When planes could land and take off, the more seriously wounded...
...watch, a wallet, saw that he had been observed, dropped the wallet & watch into the little tramp's pocket, slunk off. Pursued by the pickpocket the little tramp at last became aware of the fat purse that he was carrying. Pleased, he walked over to a hot-dog stand and bought himself a sausage; then he looked at his new watch. The proper owner of watch and wallet, approaching the little tramp, grabbed for his property. The little tramp ran away and dodged into a big tent where there was a circus. Here he amused the spectators...
...been lugged ashore, Claire had the momentary pang of remorse it had been his intention to inspire. But because, on their subsequent encounter, he employed a term of callow reproach of which the effect upon Claire was wonderful and strange. "Out of her rage and pain and the hot pressure of old, old instincts and urges, intelligence was being born. For the first time in her life she had just had a thought...
...contact points in the process of rushing news to newsboy. In the "fudge" room stand three linotype machines next to telegraph instruments where telegraphic flashes tell sudden death, discovery, disaster. From the machines, conveyors carry the type galley directly to the presses. News, newspapers think, should be gobbled hot. The American and Journal have every known device to sell it smoking...