Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After inspecting Battle Mountain Sanitarium, national soldiers' home near Hot Springs, S. Dak., the President said: "I want to see that old man alone." He left his wife and son in their motor, re-entered the sanitarium and sat down beside a stooped figure with cascading white hair and beard. The two talked for 20 minutes. Once the older man said: "Let's see. I saw him last in 1864." The old man was Hezron G. Day, 85, Civil War veteran, father of Admiral George Calvin Day, U. S. N., who commands the present Atlantic cruiser squadron...
...While his father and mother received on the Hot Springs Country Club porch, John Coolidge strolled over to a group of five young girls, who put their arms around one another's backs and giggled. They said he should come over some night when there was a dance. He said, "I'd like to." He surveyed the golf course and stated that he had been playing that game in the East lately, with Russell Wood of the U. S. Secret Service...
Although prevalent all over the world, infantile paralysis especially attacks those living in the colder climates. It occurs usually during the dry, hot months, from May to November...
Last week, on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, skill failed. A rivet leaped through the air, gave a convulsive trout-like twist, dodged the waiting pail, slipped down through the air, gleaming, white hot, toward a Fifth Avenue bus-top. It struck with a hiss upon the back of a silk dress being worn by Helen Frawley, 17. Loiterers watched her being put into a taxicab, rubbed their eyes, gasped, moved away...
...hot Monday night recently, the guard assigned to the miniature portraits room of the Metropolitan took sick, was sent home to recover. The next morning, it was discovered that a glass case had been jimmied, that six priceless portraits painted on ivory framed with diamond-studded gold had been niched. As usual, detectives were perplexed as to the motive of the crime. If the sneaks had coveted the miniatures for their $10,000 ivory, gold and diamond value, a search might profitably be conducted through the pawnshops. If the infinitely more valuable artistic qualities had been coveted, it must have...