Word: hotter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recall, is the first colony of any consequence which their young kingdom wrested from Abyssinia (in 1889 when the Kingdom of Italy was only 28 years old). Last week with all her pennants flying the royal yacht Savoia steamed into Massawa, a hot spot on the Red Sea even hotter than famed Aden...
...even hotter water than Amos 'n Andy's Kingfish of the Mystic Knights of the Sea was the Director General of the Loyal Order of Moose last week. Pennsylvania's Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, longtime (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, who took charge of the Moose in 1906 and boosted their membership from 247 to 600,000, was on trial in Manhattan's Federal Court charged with conspiracy to conduct an interstate lottery. In the same boat with the Moose was the Fraternal Order of Eagles, two of whose officers were also indicted two months ago (TIME...
Tall, handsome, dandyish David Graham Phillips was a man of mark in the days of four-inch collars and wicked "Interests." Even then his collars were higher, his crusading zeal hotter than most. Many a reader remembers well the fuss & fury roused by his expose of Senators DePew, Aldrich, Knox, Foraker, Platt et al. in a Cosmopolitan magazine series called "The Treason of the Senate." President Roosevelt, irked by this intrusion on what he considered his private hunting ground, first used his pet word "muckraker" in veiled denunciation of the author...
...argument waxed hotter. Curator Tschudy is reported to have said: "I cannot believe that students learn anything from copying." The lady instructor and the pupils packed up their folding camp stools, easels, paint boxes and little bottles of water, went back to Manhattan and told the whole story to their director, Miss Kay Hardy. Said she: "Museums with interesting and educational exhibitions should not be permitted to have curators who are so out of sympathy with the progress of educational...
...stores. Reason for the change was thought to be that lower commodity prices make available at 20? many articles formerly costing around 50?, hence enable Woolworth to compete more with department stores. The 20? articles will be mostly in china and glassware. The move will throw Woolworth into much hotter competition with the chains which have hitherto resembled Woolworth stores but have not had a 10? limit, including S. S. Kresge, S. H. Kress, McLellan, F. & W. Grand-Silver, W. T. Grant and Schulte-United Stores...