Word: hotter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years later Indians again raided the valley. This time the Black Boys went after the pack trains hotter than ever. Fort Bedford, 30 miles away, answered by wholesale arrests. At dawn a few days later James Smith and 19 Black Boys leaped from behind an embankment before the Fort entrance, streaked through the gates before a dazed sentry could collect his wits, covered the dumbfounded garrison of crack regulars gathered about their morning rum ration. The whole operation required less than two minutes. Eight days later Smith was arrested and put on trial for murder. Following his prompt acquittal...
...stainless steel statue of St. Francis on Christmas Tree Point, across the city from famed Telegraph Hill. Leading the opposition were Banker Herbert Fleishhacker and Mrs. Adolph B. Spreckels; champions for the defense were Artist William Gaskin and a Mrs. Marie de Lavega Welch West. Words grew hotter, tempers frayed...
...felony last fortnight was Vermont's Governor Charles Manley Smith. His dereliction was failing to report a bookkeeper's embezzlement of $250,000 from Rutland's Marble Savings Bank, of which he is president (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week another state executive found himself in far hotter water than Governor Smith when the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency found the accounts of Centerville, S. Dak.'s First National Bank short $170,000, closed it. Promptly arrested on a Federal warrant charging embezzlement and misapplication of funds was the bank's president. South Dakota...
Savage hand-to-hand battles in Madrid suburbs raged hotter every day as the week passed, and General Miaja announced with particular satisfaction that his Madrid machine guns had caught a wild Moorish charge by turbaned riders on Arabian steeds and mowed it down to the last horse and man. In the $25,000,000 University City founded by King Alfonso on the Capital's outskirts, fantastic conflicts raged among the modernistic buildings. Dispatches reported Madrid defenders gunning from behind books in the Philosophy library, selling their lives dearly among the Classics. In an international war, such as that...
...spent less than a quarter of his time in his air-cooled Washington office, has flown an estimated 145,000 miles to stir the New Deal's peace porridge wherever labor troubles brewed. Today, with labor troubles brewing harder than ever, his peace porridge is getting hotter...