Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...couple of ounces of mica "in the Klondike. ... A blizzard. A straggling company of ragged monte-banks passing through a wintry defile; Chilkoot Pass. Chaplin left behind in the dash for gold, blown to the door of a lonely cabin. Does the hearty Westerner within open his door, warm the tattered stranger with a glass of whiskey? No; he snarls through a crack in the window; Chilly Chaplin reels off in the storm...
Rotarians were hit with snowballs. Rotarians threw snowballs. The snow came in box cars from the virgin peaks of Colorado; bathing beauties, cops, were pelted in the streets of Cleveland, warm with July sunlight; the Rotarians loosed their inhibitions by throwing it around. More inhibitions were launched in a song...
...prizes, a gold medal and $500 in gold which his father, a millhand, said Frank would save towards college. Elimination bees in different cities had thinned out the competitors to nine state champions, who laughed to hear the cinchy words they began the finals with-"catch, black, grant, warm." First to drop out was Almeda Pennington of Houston, Tex., who slipped up on "skittish." "Scittish," Almeda spelled it. Mary Coddens, the little Belgian girl from South Bend, Ind., was next. She has spoken English only five years, but never faltered until she mixed "cosmos," the universe with "cosmas," a flower...
...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...
...advice will be needed in meeting the new warm spell, for summer attire and disattire are already the rule. And if the combination of heat and examination is too much for some heads, just remember that it is soon over. But for the present, "Who made this damn weather anyway...