Word: swelters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Traveling salesmen who swelter in upper berths have often jawed in stuffy washrooms about "these doggone high Pullman rates." In particular they suspected some sort of capitalistic iniquity in the item of a 50% Pullman surcharge accruing to the railroad...
...established his personal headquarters last week upon an armored train near Peking. Chang, according to his wont, ensconced himself amid urban luxury. Barbarian that he is, he is said to treasure still a cheap Connecticut alarm clock, acquired in his youth under circumstances of good omen. Conferees Swelter. With the approach of Peking's blistering summer the delegates of the nine Washington Treaty Powers, assembled at Peking (TIME, Nov. 2), grew not unnaturally restive last week. The Chang-Wu-fostered Premier of China, Dr. W. W. Yen (TIME, May 10), resigned early in the week, abandoned the farce...
...anomalous that the pedagogs now swelter on hot June days in gowns that their clerical predecessors wore for warmth in the chill Middle Ages. Down the back of the agnostic philosopher hangs a cowl that the friar invented to warm his ears after paternosters...
Meanwhile, swelter, for soon your books will no longer know the thumbing of fingers and the hasty passing of eyes. Glean them in haste and in the heat of the day, for you will soon rest...
...does not matter what the French or the Russians or the Little Entente or any of the rest to at Genoa; except that it is more pleasant to buy bathing suits (and use them) than to swelter over trunk-packing...