Word: chillness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vigilant U. S. patriots felt the deepest marrow of their bones chill with affrighted horror last week at despatches reporting that the notorious German Captain Karl Boy-Ed was seeking a visa to enter...
Thus is the chief advantage of slang, its originality, lost completely. Phrase after-phrase follows the imitative route to a dull oblivion. As a remedy for this stultifying condition, a simple moderation offers itself. And if the College composition courses can safely manoeuvre between the chill formality of Pater's stately sentences and the mongrel style of the streets, a Harvard man may yet produce the great American novel...
...horse that won the Hopeful and the Futurity last year; a small-hooved, huge-thewed bay colt by Sun Briar out of Cleopatra, who arrived in Louisville in a private car padded with silver canvas. They mentioned the morning that this horse had taken his first workout in the chill dews of seven o'clock- a morning when the trainer had stood at the rail, frantically signaling Watson the exercise boy, to slow down, while the split-second gentry compared watches, believing that they must have made some mistake in timing this incredible horse...
...drive was carried on for the benefit of the Near East Relief to clothe the destitute people of Asia Minor who, according to the announcement at the beginning of the drive "have only the rags they are wearing to shield them from the chill Syrian winter and the burning desert sun of summer." In view of this it is striking to note that the largest item on the list, which indeed contains a goodly number of assorted clothes including 200 elderly neckties, was about three tons of magazines. The collection committee, feeling that these would not prove of particular advantage...
...From April 19 to April 25 inclusive" can safely be left to his ingenuity, and he begins his interpretation by ignoring the mechanical sound of an official "spring recess" and talks yearningly of "spring vacation" for months beforehand. It means that, long since weary of sloppy pavements and chill breezes around the corner of the library, he can betake himself to the country where things are getting green as well as sloppy, and where the chilliness of the breeze can be discounted because one naturally expects to be cold in the country. Or it means that...