Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...manner which, to say the least, was decidedly ungentlemanly. As our Nine will not play with them again this season, we shall not enter into particulars. For our Nine, Leeds batted finely, making two first and three total base hits. Thayer played well at third, capturing two hot liners very handsomely. Thatcher caught without a passed ball...
...Wright got his first on an error of the third baseman, took second on a passed ball, and came home op Tyng's two-base hit. Tyng was put out while attempting to steal third. Thayer took first on an error by pitcher, stole second, and scored on a hot grounder of Ernst's which the third base failed to stop. Dow closed the inning by giving the short stop an easy fly. For Brown, Nickerson reached first by Thatcher's missing the third strike, Salisbury retired on a foul fly to Thayer, Tyler struck to Sawyer...
...pays nothing to the College for the right of using them and is in no way responsible for the manner in which they are kept. Consequently, several times during the year we have been unable to take our usual bath, on account of the absence of hot water, which in the winter is absolutely necessary; but, worse than all, for the last three weeks the baths have stopped running entirely; this, we understand, being done by order of the College. Perhaps the authorities consider that we have had a sufficient number of baths this year, or that the warmth...
...next, helping themselves to everything, now in the name of the Union, and now in that of the King. To say who were the worse, the Cow-boys or the Skinners, would be hard indeed; both were as bad as they could be, - Arcades ambo! They made things so hot in Westchester that Old Nick fled in dismay from his disciples across Long Island Sound. Every place where his fiery hoofs touched the hissing sea there sprang up a black rock, and these now bear the name of the Devil's Stepping-Stones. His Satanic Majesty found in his place...
...your leave, readers, I'll transport you in imagination to a place which differs in many respects from this; where the winters are long but pleasant, and the summers are short and hot; where they say the man lived who remarked, "We have very good weather up our way, except that the sleighing is rather poor for a couple of months in the year...