Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First time the question was asked Alpha caused Inventor May no end of embarrassment by croaking: "The Raleigh Observer-Times" Blaming the lapse upon the damp weather, Professor May quickly dictated a new wax cylinder, had Alpha repeat over and over in a cockney bass: "I read the News & Observer." But flushed tobacco farmers were not impressed, paid more quarters to see the hootchy-kootchy...
Lying flat on their backs in freezing weather, attendants at Harvard's Oak Ridge Observatory have been watching eagerly every night since Tuesday for concentrated showers of Leonid meteors...
...results have been disappointing. Harvard astronomers had expected the maximum show to be Wednesday night, but the shower was not large. The astronomers at Pennsylvania's observatory await the big display tonight, and it is probable that Harvard will again have observers at Oak Ridge if the weather continues to be clear...
...role since then has been that of a country gentlewoman in Connecticut. She keeps birds and gardens, admires the neighbors' babies. Every day her father ("Syd"), who keeps a separate home in Ridgefield, comes over to luncheon with her, eats in his shirtsleeves when the weather is warm. That Miss Farrar's energy and determination have outlasted her once raven-black hair was proven last summer when on the way to the Salzburg Festival, Nazis stopped her German chauffeur, refused to let him pass the border. Miss Farrar got out of her car, hiked a good five miles into town...
...face value as one of the First Citizens of the (nonexistent) World State. Autobiographer Wells denies that he is a dual personality but admits having a persona, an idea of himself somewhat at variance with the humdrum facts. Of late his persona has been a little under the weather. To get his persona back on its feed he has written this highly Wellsian Experiment in Autobiography...