Word: coolingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might naturally be expected the soda fountains reported an unprecedented demand for cooling drinks of all sorts, one pharmacy reporting the sale of over 400 glasses of orangeade and 100 malted milks on one of the hottest days lest week. The same store consumed over 500 pounds of ice during one day and the fountain manager estimated that at least five tons of ice were used daily by all the various establishments to cool the parched throats of thirsty students...
Beside seeking relief from the heat in iced drinks and cool clothes many students spent their spare moments between examinations and study swimming. The University pools were continually filled and in Westmorly it was said that the janitor had to spend most of his time keeping unauthorized persons from utilizing the facilities reserved only for students in the dormitory. The Charles was popular despite a slight typhoid scare and the two boat-houses provided, swimming, diving and dressing places for numbers of hot, tired students...
...Phillips Brooks House hand-book for Freshmen, excellent though it is in design and execution, gives no hints for hot weather. In extreme cases, where a cool retreat in which to study is imperative, the harassed undergraduate may take a tip from the Irish ditch digger's wife, who replied, when taxed by her husband for not preparing a more elaborate supper: "What! Me slave over a hot stove and you working in your nice cool sewer...
Another record was made yesterday afternoon when the football team scrimmaged after only a week of spring practice. The unusually cool weather has aided in their record and its continuance will insure practice until May 20 or even later...
...inescapable romantic element centers about Harry Fender, collar advertisement masquerading as a U. S. lieutenant. He loves Doris Patston, French flower-seller with an English accent. She is gracious, with a cool, reassuring voice, nimble limbs, modish good looks. The diligent Sigmund Romberg has drained off another resonant score to match his The Student Prince (TiME, Dec. 15). There is a military chorus to boom close harmony and rumble rifles. Florenz Ziegfeld has window-dressed the scenes far above the usual art-calendar level. The book has been only partially translated from the lumbering German. It would lose momentum...