Word: sunburnt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youths were being passed from shoulder to shoulder along the crowd. Both were sunburnt; both grinned broadly. While his heart turned, in his mouth, to unpalatable dough, he watched them borne from the train sheds to the plaza. Helping to carry one of them was Adjutant General Charles Cox of Georgia. They were seated in a motor. To the one whom the Adjutant had carried, a huge silver cup was handed. "Jones," yelled the people. "Watts," they yelled...
Salzburg hoteliers ran out of goats' cheese, black bread and beds. Celebrated visitors, unable to procure respectable lodgings or to endure the hard cots and sunburnt goitres of the local peasantry, appealed for aid to Herr Reinhardt...
...good for a laugh. The mere allusion to one of these settlements, thrown out with a befitting sneer, rouses roars of mirth in any company and knights the dullest jackass as a wit. About the bulletin board of a golf club in Florida, stood a group of Eastern citizens, sunburnt, risible, reading the list of entries for the annual women's golf championship of Belleair Heights. They read with respect the names of Mrs. Dorothy Cambell Hurd of Philadelphia, national champion; Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, Miss Francis Hadfield of Milwaukee, Miss Dorothy Klotz of Chicago...