Word: warmers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cold and the evenings, in the epoch before the mightiest minds were turned to providing parlor entertainment, long and uninteresting. Young sparks also were compelled to walk the long miles that lay between their cottages and those of their well-beloveds. Arriving tired and cold, they sought some warmer, some sprightlier diversion than sofa sitting in a chilly chamber. Bundling was invented for their convenience. It consisted of putting girl and boy into neat, warm, supposedly secure garments and tucking them into bed, where they might lie, talking or drowsing through the winter evenings. The practice was regarded...
...Fair and Warmer, The Gold Diggers, The Bat, Why Men Leave Home...
...fielding average of the team as a whole as risen steadily with the arrival of warmer weather and more equitable playing conditions, showing an 18 point increase during the past week. Jones, without a single miscue against his name, leads the guardians of the outer diamond regions, while Donaghy has a larger percentage of faultlessly handled chances to his credit than any of the other Crimson infielders...
...Pops date back to the summer of 1885 when the Boston Symphony Orchestra was only four years old. There was then started the project of a supplementary series of concerts of popular character to suit the warmer season. They were modelled after the "Bilse" Concerts of Berlin, the formal rows of seats and tables were removed and tables were so installed so that one might sip wine or beer, munch a sandwich or smoke, while listening to a waltz of Strauss or a march of Sousa...
...class baseball season was launched when aspirants reported to M. A. cheek '26 and his assistants yesterday afternoon. Since formal practice will not begin until the weather becomes warmer, additional men may report any time this week...