Word: glacial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glacial Stages of the Past", Professor Mather, Geology Lecture Room...
Generally speaking, Britons maintain their dining and living rooms at irregular temperatures, often much below 60, and millions cf British bedrooms are never heated. Hence warming pans full of hot coals are slipped up and down between glacial sheets before the sleeper snuggles...
Present as the only Foreign Minister of a Great Power to attend was Sir Austen Chamberlain, jovial to fellow diplomats, glacial to the press, British...
...believed to have originated in Asia because Asia is the oldest continuously dry land in the world; because climate and topography were ideal there for the development of the dawnman; because the glacial ice ages of Europe missed this area. Westward and eastward from Gobi probably traveled those hairy primates whose descendants are now called Smith, Karpetsky, Hop Lee, Seraphino...
Mayors. Before a banquet audience of 559 Alsace-Lorraine mayors, M. Poincaré rose up to speak, in Strasbourg. He who can be inflexible and glacial was now charming, and soon forensically vivid. Raising his glass in a preliminary toast, he cried: "I drink to the Alsace that is passionately, invincibly French...