Word: hotter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Having obtained confirmation of three controversial characters in highest appointive posts (Frankfurter, Murphy, Hopkins), Franklin Roosevelt last week sent to the Senate a still hotter appointment: Thomas R. Amlie, Wisconsin radical Progressive, to be a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission...
When Lord Leverhulme departed from Washington the British soap tycoon was supposed to go to Boston for the tenth annual Boston Conference on Distribution. That too had an international theme - discussion of a world census of distribution - but with things getting hotter abroad every minute, Lord Leverhulme decided to go home, left his speech to be read to the 400 conferees...
...shots carry no further than the average week-end golfer's, played the sort of game that breaks an opponent's spirit. Although outdriving him 40 to 50 yards on each hole, Snead watched his advantage melt around the greens where Runyan's game was hotter than the noonday sun. At the end of the morning round, Titan Snead was ready to throw his clubs in the nearby Delaware. He had not succeeded in winning a hole. Runyan was 5 up, had been leading ever since the third hole...
...line gang boss on a railroad electrification job, tells the story in his own words-a wisecracking lineman's lingo in which an angry character "arcs," gets "hotter than a wet switch''; a nosey one gets "ideas his head ain't insulated for." Like the piano playing of the villain, the plot is as "complicated as a six-track interlocking," contains as many trick effects as an electrical exposition. But when Author Haines writes straight description of wiring a low tunnel, his story delivers useful power...
...Stenvig, mayor of Hell, arrived in Manhattan as the guest of publicity-wise Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, gave the press a chance to make free use of naughty expressions. Sample: chided by Host Ripley for bringing Manhattan a heat wave, Mayor Stenvig replied: "Why, it's hotter than Hell in New York...