Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some of our country towns have lately come to have a Continental look," wrote the editor of the British Lancet last week, "for every morning every window is filled with bedding hung out to air in the sunshine. The scene is cheerful, but the householders are depressed; for the habit of bedwetting, in guests who are likely to stay a long time, is a serious tax on hospitality. . . . Somewhat unexpectedly, eneuresis has proved to be one of the major menaces to the comfortable disposition of evacuated urban children . . . and at a time of widespread domestic crisis we make no apology...
...Punch, Wit A. P. Herbert, literary M. P. for Oxford, wrote an article Mein Pamph, describing the Royal Air Force showering Berlin with "Bomphlets...
...never in any direction exceeds what its audience can take, it rarely eases up short of that. Within those limits it is extraordinarily warm, full, and actual, and by bulk alone gathers an enormous and serene momentum that ends by making the story seem as real and immediate as air. To the proper reader, Emily Fenwick becomes a useful magic mirror for solace, nostalgia, future-gazing, and self-comparison...
...Fire swallowing is an art that takes lots of practice but it is not particularly dangerous. I do it all with chemicals and it in just like breathing in warm air. Many believe that you have to have a cast iron mouth and throat for this kind of thing, but surprisingly enough I cannot even put a lighted match in my mouth without its burning the roof of my mouth...
...gloom clouds which have surrounded Harvard football for the past two weeks evaporated Saturday in the clear autumn air of Palmer Stadium. For it was a rejuvenated Crimson eleven which statistically played the powerful Tiger on equal terms for three quarters, losing...