Word: hotter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...auto dealers last week were hotter than Model-T radiators. They have been selling only a fraction of the number of new cars OPA's quotas allow-and total cars available in 1942 are only 9% of last year's sales. The National Automobile Dealers Association made a cross-country check of 9,000 local rationing boards, was shocked to find new-car sales even worse than most dealers figured. In the first 20-25 days of rationing, not a single new car was sold in Sioux Falls, S.D., Lewiston, Idaho, Council Bluffs, Iowa, many other towns...
...Senate the name calling was even hotter. As usual the good intentions of earnest Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley paved the way. Barkley (another of the absentees) said the pension law was "untimely and unfortunate"; he hoped a committee would quickly report a repealer; if not, he would take matters into his own hands...
...Russians were now making the retreat much hotter for them than the shivering Germans liked...
...days Lawyer J. R. Stirrett cooled his heels in the offices of International Nickel Co. in Copper Cliff, Ont.-unable to get past the reception desk to transact some business. The cooler his heels got, the hotter he got under the collar...
...such airy reasons Fiorello H. (for Enrico) LaGuardia was in deep trouble last week. Hard upon him was the quadrennial mayoralty election; hotter than ever on his neck was the breath of the unkillable Tammany Tiger. And Tammany had a new argument: "New York wants a full-time Mayor...