Word: warmer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hurdlers have also been practicing since the close of the winter season, but none of the jumpers or runners have yet been out. Although the track has been in fairly good condition for several days, Coach Farrell decided not to call the men out until the weather should be warmer and the chance of early season colds and strains not so great...
Miss Kennedy is permitted to become slightly intoxicated in the second act in hilarious memory of her famous scene in Fair and Warmer. It is regrettable that the resemblance to that extraordinary rumpus stops short at that. Some day someone will write another Fair and Warmer for Miss Kennedy and then the whole city will turn out with trumpets...
...into the Henry Cabot Lodge Memorial Bird Sanctuary, and across the Bay, on the Nahant promontory, the home of the late Senator himself. On the grounds is also a swimming pool which the President examined but expressed no intention of using. Its temperature is 55° ?a good deal warmer than the bay itself, into which Lieutenant Edgar Allen Poe, commanding the Maine Guard, leads his men early every morning for a plunge. There is a garage-stable for six automobiles and four horses...
...patter of satin slippers on a polished floor. To each son of Harvard, the Prom--the prom of his own class--comes but once in a lifetime. But Mem has seen many--Mem has witnessed many a class at its revelry. Perhaps this is the basis of a warmer hold on old graduates than the memory of the numerous meals there consumed, in the days before dyspepsia became their unwelcome dinner guest...
...where swimmers attempt it-Dover to Calais or vice versa-and a swimmer's course is often 56 miles long through the shifting tides. It has been traversed several times, most recently and fastest (16 hr. 33 min.) by Enrique Tirabocchi, Argentine porpoise-man. Channel water, however, is warmer than the Firth of Forth. (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923). The Hellespont, between Gallipoli Peninsula and Asia Minor-famed in fable for being negotiated by Leander, amorous Greek, and in romance because Lord Byron did it for all his maimed leg-is a paddle of only three miles...